Cavite receives water pump from DAR

by Raadee Sausa April 17, 2021 (Photo from Department of Agrarian Reform) ...

by Raadee Sausa
April 17, 2021

(Photo from Department of Agrarian Reform)

IMUS, Cavite - To make farming activities more pleasurable and productive, the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) installed a water pump in Barangay Baliwag.

DAR-Cavite provincial agrarian reform program officer James Arthur Dubongco said the installation of the water pump is part of the DAR’s effort to keep the urban gardening program a way of life for the volunteer-gardeners of the Baliwag Farmers’ Association (BFA).



“This is our way of showing our appreciation to our agrarian reform beneficiaries, who mostly make up the BFA. And we are willing to do it even when we are under strict quarantine measures because we need every hand to till the soil and keep food available on the table of every Filipino family especially at this time of the pandemic,” Dubongco said.

Late last year, the BFA turned a sizeable area in their barangay into Cavite’s version of “Buhay sa Gulay” project, which is patterned after the country’s first urban vegetable garden city at the idle football field of the Saint John Bosco Parish Church in Tondo, Manila.



In January, they enjoyed the fruits of their labor when, in partnership with the DAR, they launched their harvest festival, earning as much as P20,000 in two weeks of continued harvesting.

Dubongco said the water pump should help make gardening much more fun as the volunteer gardeners need not go elsewhere to fetch water for their vegetable plants.