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.