Dir.
Domingo Diaz as he presented updates on the Bangon Mini-Farms
Project during the Board of Trustees (BOT) meeting at Brgy.
Aguiting, Kananga, Leyte on October 9, 2014. |
Bangon to grow
vegetables for bigger market this month
By 19th Infantry Battalion,
8ID PA
October 9, 2014
KANANGA, Leyte –
Director Domingo Diaz, member of the Board of Directors of Land Bank
of the Philippines (LBP), said Bangon will be planting vegetables for
Gaisano supermarket by third week of October.
This was what Diaz stressed
during the Board of Trustees meeting of the Bangon Mini-Farms Alpha
Sector Association, Inc. (BMFASAI), held at the headquarters of the
19th Infantry Battalion in Brgy. Aguiting, Kananga, Leyte on Thursday,
October 9.
The meeting was attended by
a total of 25 individuals which comprised of cluster heads, LBP and
military personnel who had been advocating the program since January
this year.
“Once satisfied with the
quality of our vegetables during our first test delivery on December,
Bangon will be regularly supplying Gaisano supermarket on a weekly
basis”, Diaz said.
Diaz who is also a member of
the Bangon Board of Trustees is confident that their produce will be
patronized by would-be markets, after seeing the quality of vegetables
displayed in leading supermarkets in Tacloban and Ormoc City.
While plans to supply
institutional markets is about to jumpstart, Mr. Gil Carandang, the
Father of Philippine Organic Farming and a Bangon Trustee, is
enjoining all of its farmer-partners to also venture on growing
vegetables for local markets.
Carandang encourages members
to sell their vegetables in designated Bangon Chain of Farmer’s
Markets such as one located at the headquarters of the Army’s 802nd
Infantry Brigade in Camp Downes, Ormoc City as other institutional
markets are still being developed.
The Bangon Mini-Farms Alpha
Sector Association Inc. has at least 10 clusters with a total of 428
farmer-partners in selected parts of Leyte province.
With this recent
development, Bangon will be crafting a master plan which shall aim to
reach its objective to end hunger and poverty, one farmer-family at a
time by November next year.