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City Nutrition Council Promotes Urban Agriculture
2013-08-05 
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BEST URBAN GARDEN SEARCH
The urban garden of Tugatog E/S being evaluated for the Best Urban Garden Search, July 23-25, 2013. The contest aims to promote healthy and organic food production, in line with the Nutrition Month theme, "Gutom at Malnutrisyon, Sama-sama Nating Wakasan." The 16 finalists vie to be the best in three categories: home, school and community. |
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CLOSING CEREMONY
Mayor REX Gatchalian congratulates the winners of the search for the best urban garden, outstanding nutrition scholar and outstanding barangay nutrition committees in the closing ceremony of this year's nutrition month. |
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BEST HOME GARDEN
The urban garden of Myrna Lagunday from Brgy. Gen. T. De Leon is this year's best home garden. |
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BEST COMMUNITY GARDEN
Mapulang Lupa Metro Villa Homeowners Association has the Best Community Garden. |
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BEST SCHOOL GARDEN
For the school category, Marulas Central School was hailed the best. |
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BEST URBAN GARDEN SEARCH
A barangay nutrition scholar helps in the maintenance of the school garden of Lingunan Elementary School, the runner-up to Marulas Central School. |
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BEST URBAN GARDEN SEARCH
The urban garden of Andres Fernando Elementary School in Brgy. Malanday places third runner-up in school category. |
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BEST SCHOOL GARDEN
The winning school garden of Marulas Central School. |
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The City Nutrition Council (CNC) partook of the Nutrition Month Celebration by recognizing various supportive groups which joined its “Gulayan Contest,” aimed at promoting urban agriculture to increase the accessibility of nutritious foods to Valenzuelanos.
Home garden, community garden, and school garden are the three categories which comprised CNC’s gardening contest. Winners were chosen based on their garden layout, variety of crops, harvest, and use of natural fertilizers and pest killers.
Mayor REX Gatchalian mentioned in an interview that, “this urban gardening initiative is truly worth promoting because of its cost-effectiveness. Aside from producing nutritional food, we also get to preserve our environment for the next generation.”
On February 24, 2011, President Benigno S Aquino III issued Executive Order (EO) 26, declaring the implementation of the National Greening Program (NGP) as a government priority program to reduce poverty, promote food security, environmental stability and biodiversity conservation, and enhance climate change mitigation and adaptation.
Areas for planting under the program include forestlands, mangrove and protected areas, ancestral domains, civil and military reservations, urban areas under the greening plan of LGUs, inactive and abandoned mine sites, and other suitable lands of public domain.
The City Agriculture Office considers the gardening contest as a form of compliance to NGP. Currently, this department is monitoring a total of 26 homeowners associations city-wide, which practice and promote urban agriculture.
A total of 15 finalists received cash prizes and certificates of recognition during the awarding ceremonies of the gardening contest held last Wednesday, July 31, during the recognition rites of the city’s nutrition partners as part of the celebration of the Nutrition Month 2013 .
The winners in each category are:
HOME GARDEN:
Gen. T. De Leon (1st Place) – Myrna Lagunday
Maysan De Guzman Gardening (2nd Place) – Luvy De Guzman
Parada Tandang Manang Street (3rd Place) – Josie Monteverde
COMMUNITY GARDEN:
Mapulang Lupa Metro Villa Homeowners Association (1st Place)
Maysan BHW Community Garden (2nd Place)
Dalandanan – Felville Home Owners / IYCP Advocate Community Garden (3rd Place)
SCHOOL GARDEN:
Marulas Central School (1st Place)
Lingunan Elementary School (2nd Place)
Canumay West Elementary School (3rd Place)
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