Cebu City farmers get free training

CEBU, Philippines —  Farmers in Cebu City have received free training on farm planning and record-keeping.

This is a program of the City Agriculture Department (CAD) which aims to guide the local farmers in better planning on what to plant and how to monitor it.

Along with this, farmers also underwent a Vermicomposting seminar. This is done to help solve the problem of the increase in prices of chemical fertilizers here.

Councilor Philip Zafra, chairman of the committee on agriculture in the City Council, has been batting to give more programs beneficial to the farmers as they are very valuable in the food production.

The city government had also been launching programs in relation to food production in schools as well.

CAD gave out full assistance to the Department of Education’s “Gulayan sa Paaralan” by sharing their technical expertise and some farming tools and supplies.

Aside from that, CAD has also been encouraging the residents of Cebu City to do urban gardening.

Although farmers in the city are expected to produce fruits, vegetables, meats, and the like, residents are also encouraged to do urban gardening so that they will have food on standby anytime, not to mention, also saves them some money. — Sanden J. Anadia, GMR (FREEMAN)