The Department of Agriculture Regional Field Office 2 (DA-RFO2) recently inaugurated a P2.7-million protective cultivation facility under the department's National Urban and Peri-Urban Agriculture Program (Nupap).
The facility, dubbed as the Protective Cultivation Project, is located at the Isabela Livelihood and Skills Training and Assessment Center in Samonte in Quezon, Isabela.
Ferdinand Cortez of the DA-RFO2 Regional Agriculture and Fisheries Information Section (Rafis) said Nupap seeks to "improve the food supply in communities to ensure citizens' equitable access to healthy food, particularly in urban and peri-urban areas."
Aligned with the Nupap's core objective, Cortez noted that the protective cultivation facility includes a greenhouse with hydroponics, nursery, mushroom growing house, and poultry house to improve food security, create livelihood, and promote healthy nutrition.
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