TACLOBAN CITY — It used to be a vast idle land.
But instead of making it into a garbage dump, a group of farmers in this city decided to transform it into a vegetable garden.
Last December, they planted it with palay or rice grain and vegetables including kangkong and pechay.
Their produce are ready for harvest this month, said 65-year-old Welefartos Bodao, president of the Vegetables Farmers Association (BVFA), composed of 29 members, 18 of whom are women.
Bodao said the vegetables they planted would be sold in the market, which would provide them extra money badly needed in this time of pandemic.
The one-hectare lot in Barangay 101, located north of Tacloban, is part of…
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