Mobile services provider Smart Communications, Inc. (Smart) has partnered with the city government of Zamboanga, the Department of Agriculture, and the Office of the City Agriculturist, to provide #PlantSmart kits to urban communities. Each planting kit contains vegetable seeds, fertilizers, and loam soil.
Around 100 families from urban communities received #PlantSmart kits and fertilizers from Smart and the city government of Zamboanga.
The donation is part of an initiative launched in barangays Mampang, Tugbungan, and Talon-talon that encourages communities to embrace urban gardening.
Councilor Al-Jihan Edding, who chairs the committee on agriculture, shared, “The program hopes to mitigate the effects of the pandemic on these households. Through their own edible gardens, residents can use their produce for personal consumption and sell the rest to their neighbors as another source of livelihood, serving as a buffer to food insecurity and poverty.”
“This partnership shows that the government and the business sector can work together for the public welfare and the common good,” she added.
With plant kits and fertilizers, recipients are able to start their own vegetable garden as additional source of food and income.
In 2021, Plant Smart kits were distributed to over 3,000 communities nationwide, benefitting the urban sector in Quezon City, farmers from the provinces of Cebu, and Antique, indigenous cultural communities in Cagayan de Oro City, Bukidnon and Misamis Occidental.
Plant Smart is in line with the company’s commitment to the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goal #2 of Zero Hunger, by promoting food security and bridging the digital divide in agriculture.
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