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Housewives grow organic vegetables

• Source: http://www.pia.gov.ph/?m=1&t=1&id=51228
• By: Rebecca Grace S. David
• August 27, 2011-www.pia.gov.ph

BALANGA CITY, Bataan- Three years ago, some 25 housewives from barangay Cataning organized themselves into the KAANIB (Kasama Ani sa Barangay).

Since idle homelots in subdivisions in the barangay become garbage dumping areas, the group decided to borrow these lots for them to work on.

But first they have to be equipped with the necessary skill to plant organic vegetables. Vegetable experts from the Department of Agriculture Regional Office’s High Value Commercial Crops Program (HVCC) gave them a hands-on training on veggie planting.

A 600 sq meter lot served as their experimental plot. The Balanga City Agricultural Office gave them plastic mulch and organic fertilizer in this initial trial. They planted eggplants, tomatoes, siling labuyo, siling berde, pipino, okra, and ampalaya. Along the perimeter fence, they planted papaya and ube.

From the training, they learned to produce their own organic insecticide. They fermented for a week the mixture of gin, ginger, kakawati, sili, garlic, neem tree leaves, onions, and sugar. Another concoction is the foliar spray made from the mixture of sugar, gin and gills, entrails, and guts of fishes.

KAANIB president Zenaida Tomas enthused that the housewives have earned as much as P3,000 from the sales of their harvest. Three housewives cultivate one vegetable bed. This way, all of them have some produce to sell.

The group has already borrowed 2,000 sq m of idle subdivision lots which they transformed into beds of organic vegetables.

Backyard planting of organic vegetables not only made the housewives make use of their time productively but also provided them with additional income DA Information officer Jun Espiritu added.