Mati City Brings Back Home Gardening Using UCG Technology

Urban Container Gardening technology sealed it’s partnership with the City Mati  through an Executive Order issued last April 11 at the City Hall Compound.

Executive Order 42 s. 2014 also known as Establishment of Green Communities with Agri-industry based components for youth, women and other organized associations, adopting the 4H Club and the Rural Improvement Club Strategies .

Vice Mayor Glenda Rabat-Gayta  said that this is to achieve food sufficiency and start maximizing open spaces of urban poor settlements with urban container gardening (UCG) in the rural/ urbanizing barangays, growing our own food through nature and organic farming.

“Kanang kamatis  ug uban pang lamas na gamiton sa pagluto mao pa na ang atong gastuhan? Kung naa tay tanom sa atong backyard dako na kana siya og savings sa pamilya”, she added.

The Executive Order was unveiled last April 11 at the City Hall of Mati  as their way to institutionalized  a simple solution to a problem called hunger.

Vice Mayor said , “We want to make a trend that ‘Kung di ka farmer di ka in’ but we need to set an example that’s why we have to do it first here in City Hall so that the other departments offices  will follow.”

“ And when the time comes  that they will follow us ,we will reaping the  reward whle they are still planting ”, she added.

Meanwhile, UCG Consultant  and Ateneo De Davao  Agriculture  Instructor Perfecto Rom was truly grateful to the City  of Mati for institutionalizing his research that is why any technology he will developed will be directly given to the City so that they will be the first  to experience a cheaper and faster results in their home gardening.

“I would like to ask you whatever you learned in our activity, I would like you to share it to other people because I want the Urban Container Gardening  technology will be common  knowledge  and not any exclusive right”,  he added  in his speech during the launching.

The  following offices  and  the groups that made the activity  possible are ; City Mayor’s Office, City Vice Mayor’s Office,  Barangays Integrators,  Barangay Affairs Coordinating Office (BACO) , Technical Working Group  (TWG) ,  City Housing Office, City Agriculturist Office and  Presidential Commission for the Urban Poor (PCUP) -Mindanao .