Status as of October 2015

Dr. EDNA AQUINO - VPRES

Dr. LEONILA CRISOSTOMO Dir., R&D

Prof. ALEXANDER B. QUILANG

Prof. NORBERTO R. BAUTISTA

Proponents

RIZAL TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY

Prof. NORBERTO R. BAUTISTA

Prof. JOVITA A. ANIT

The Plant Biotechnology & Urban Agriculture Projects Team

Research & Development Center

Rizal Technological University (RTU)

Proponents

PHINMA Corporation (Makati City)Mr. Edmund Alan A. Qua Hiansen

Ms. Dolores N. Yabut

Proponents

Barangay Buayang Bato (Recepient)

Venue for the Greenhouse / Urban Agri

Project

Introduction & Background

Urban agriculture is the practice of

cultivating, processing, and distributing

food in or around a village, town, or city.

It may involve plant cultivation, animal It may involve plant cultivation, animal

husbandry, and aquaculture.

Introduction & Background

Urban farming is generally practiced for

income-earning

food-producing activities

recreation and relaxation recreation and relaxation

poverty alleviation

food security and food safety

Introduction & Background

Estimated population : 94 million people

Living Abroad : 11 million people

12th Most Populous Country

The Need to Feed a Growing Population

Introduction & Background

Our project is focused on containerized

cultivation of vegetables in the city

Objectives of Urban Agriculture

(1). To make available and affordable food items

especially common vegetables in the family

household and in the city and in effect lower the

expenses on these food items;

(2.) To encourage the production of healthy, safe, (2.) To encourage the production of healthy, safe,

pesticide-free vegetables;

(3.) To make use of vacant lots, residential spaces,

balconies and roof-tops for vegetable growing,

urban greening, and landscape beautification;

Objectives of Urban Agriculture

(4.) To create alternative means of livelihood

to city-residents, especially women and out-

of-school youth;

(5.) To encourage entrepreneurship attitudes

to citizens and also

(6), To encourage composting or organic

wastes, recycling of plastic, styro-foam,

glass and metal wastes, thereby reducing total

waste output

Possible Crops to Grow

CROP GROUPINGS FOR URBAN AGRICULTURE

1. Leafy veggies

- pechay, mustasa, kangkong, basil, sili (leaves),

2. Tree vegetables

- malunggay, katuray, alibangbang, sampaloc, kamias

3. Spices / Condiments3. Spices / Condiments

- pandan, garlic, onion, leeks, kinchay, black pepper, hot pepper (sili

Labuyo)

4. Root crops

- kamote, cassava, potato, carrots, singkamas, gabi, apulid,

5. Solanaceous / fruit veggies

- eggplant, tomato, sweet pepper, sili pangsigang,

Possible Crops to Grow

6. Cucurbits

- ampalaya, kalabasa (fruit & flowers), upo, patola

7. Crucifers

- cabbage, cauliflower, brocolli, lettuce

8. Leguminous crops

- batao, sitaw (pole, bush), patani, mungo, tamyao, baguio beans,

9. Others -- banana (fruit & flowers), papaya (fruit & flowers), okra, pako (fern

fiddleheads),

- sweet corn, young corn, mushrooms (oyster, vulvariella, taingang

daga);

Rationale & Justification

Why Urban Agriculture?

Increased cost of vegetables

Results in low vegetable consumption

Contaminated with pesticides Contaminated with pesticides

Vegetables are important food

ingredients

Rationale & Justification

Why Urban Agriculture?

Surplus vegetables produced could be

marketed in the community to promote

entrepreneurial skills in out of school

youth & plain housewives. youth & plain housewives.

(Entrepreneurial technology is one of

the focus of our university)

Rationale & Justification

Why Urban Agriculture?

In line with governments thrust in

promoting Good Agricultural Practice

(GAP); promotion of organic farming

help enforce, regulate and create help enforce, regulate and create

policies on proper regarding the safe use

of pesticides.

Project Impacts

Project Impacts

Project Impacts

Here are some

of the of the

Highlights of

the Project

Foreign teacher volunteers

visited our urban garden

setup at the rooftop of the

Buayang Bato Barangay

Hall, talking with Ms.

Maridol of PHINMA

Children of wife participant

help and poses for a shot

beside the vegetable plants

of their parents.

Volunteer gardeners of

Buayang Bato among

their most tendered and

loved plants.

Mr. Norby Bautista of RTU

and representative of

PHINMA poses with

volunteers.

First harvest of their foliage

vegetables kangkong and

petchay

Volunteers watering their plants

during the afternoon after the

hot summer day.

Finally the Buayang Bato urban agri project has now a permanent greenhouse made of Gi Pipe

and PVC Plastic net compliments of PHINMA. The roof height is just right to allow sufficient air

moement and prevent the greenhouse from becoming too hot.

Plants are becoming crowded as more and more plants are added to the greenhouse. Careful

planning of plants to raise is important to maximize space and as not to make your growing area

too crowded for comfort. Pest and diseases may come out in a crowded set up.

Note that other houses are usually 3-4 stories high . With the greenhouse installed,

other residents are starting to make their own rooftop gardens as well.

Volunteer gardeners rearranging and moving plants to aluminum beds so that the area can

accommodate new pots and plants. This was just after the greenhouse was newly installed.

Mang George of RTU

tendering and watering

our vegetables at the roof

top of the RnD Buildling

This is RTU Demo Plot

This is our demonstration

plot at RTU RnD Building

Rooftop. Note that plants

grow vigorously as they

are exposed to full sun.

Fabricated greenhouse

made of welded L-bar

and fishnets aat the

RnD rooftop to

germinate seedlings.

Rows and rows of talong, okra,

sili almost ready for harvest

it shows that urban agri is really

viable.

Hanging horizontal

containers of petchay,

mustasa and lettuce

inside the greenhouse

ready for salad making

and sinigang . Some

are planted in vertical

PVC tubes.

A simple germinating

styrofoam box for lettuce

and petchay.

The project is currently a work in progress

RTU updating technologies in urban agriculture through

research, extension and linkages.

While PHINMA is helping and doing their part of

corporate obligation and extension work to the corporate obligation and extension work to the

community

Various Barangays in Mandaluyong City are seeking

technical assistance on Urban Agriculture in order to

sustain their backyard vegetable garden projects.

Maraming Salamat Po !!!

Prepared by;

N.R. Bautista