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917 Bulacan farmers benefit from Kabalikat sa Kabuhayan project

Published Oct 19, 2023 12:32 am

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The SM City Baliwag team, together with partner government agencies, LGU officials, service providers, and 25 farmer-beneficiaries, led the launch of the SM Foundation’s Kabalikat sa Kabuhayan Sustainable Agriculture Program in Barangay Sulivan, Baliwag City. (Photo courtesy of SM Baliwag)

 

A total of 917 farmers from Bulacan benefitted from the Kabalikat sa Kabuhayan (KSK) project.

“Napakaganda pong oportunidad ng proyektong ito para sa ating mga farmers upang mas lalong yumabong ang kanilang kaalaman, hindi lamang sa pagtatanim, kundi maging sa ibang aspeto tulad ng marketing, at iba pa (This is a very good opportunity  for our farmers to learn more about farming and other aspects like marketing),"  said Elenita S. Hernandez of Baliuag City's Agriculture Office on Wednesday, Oct. 18.
 

SM Foundation's KSK Sustainable Agriculture Program was able to train 28,550 farmers, and 917 of these are from the province of Bulacan. Overall, a total of 916 municipalities and cities around the country have already benefited from the project.
 

SM Foundation partnered with the local government units of Marilao, Baliwag, Pulilan, and San Jose Del Monte, the Department of Agriculture (DA), Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD), Technical Education and Skill Development Authority (TESDA), Department of Science and Technology (DOST), Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), Department of Tourism (DOT), D' Planners Training Center Inc., and the SM Supermalls for the KSK. 
 

With its vision to bring back hope by directly working with the farmers, SM Foundation’s KSK will benefit a total of 100 beneficiaries from selected barangays in Marilao, Baliwag, Pulilan, and San Jose Del Monte. 

The trainees will undergo a 14-week coaching conducted hand in hand by assigned trainers, government agencies, and SM Supermalls. The training will focus on several facets of farming, including land preparation, seedling, fertilizer concoction, sustainability workshops and forums, financial literacy, bookkeeping, pricing, and costing, as well as product development.

The KSK training in Baliwag, Pulilan, and San Jose Del Monte will focus mainly on rural farming, while trainees in Marilao will undergo urban farming, a technique designed to maximize the limited space for food production and sustainability. 

It targets providing low-income urban communities with essential skills in high-value crop farming by transforming underutilized urban spaces into productive gardens.

The KSK Sustainable Agriculture Program in Bulacan will run until January 2024.


 

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