Aggie NorMin capacitates PDLs on veggie gardening

 

CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY – Aiming to capacitate Persons Deprived of Liberty (PDL) with practical skills on vegetable gardening, the Department of Agriculture – Regional Field Office 10 facilitated a hands-on training session on May 8, at the Cagayan de Oro City Jail – Male Dormitory.

Through DA-10’s National Urban and Peri-Urban Agriculture Program (NUPAP) and Organic Agriculture (OA) Program, the training session provided participants with knowledge and practical techniques for cultivating vegetables adopting the natural ways of farming in urban and peri-urban spaces. NUPAP alternate focal person Ronald Allan P. Camaddo and OA Program focal person Mark Anthony D. Lagamon served as the resource speakers.

Beyond the capacitation, the agency also signified its support to the CDO City Jail in establishing a vegetable garden inside the detention facility to provide PDLs with productive activities while contributing to the dietary needs of the facility.# (AMBM)