Urban Gardening Program of Barangay Lias in Marilao, Bulacan

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Marilao is located at the northwest of Manila, and with an approximate distance of twenty kilometers between them, it will take you merely fifteen minutes to arrive at Marilao via the North Luzon Expressway and about thirty minutes through the Mcarthur Highway. Marilao is in Bulcan which belongs to Region III or Central Luzon and lies geographically on the points 120° 57’ longitude and 14° 46’, latitude. A third of its total land area of 2,625 hectares is generally flat comprising mainly of farmlands and residential subdivisions while the rest, predominantly in the east, composes mostly of rugged areas along with some hilly portions. It generally stays warm and sunny all-year round except for occassional rains in some of its areas from June to October. With a total population of 160,452, most of them are Catholics with a high literacy rate of ninety-eight percent and Tagalog as their major dialect.

Lying at the southeastern part of Marilao is one of its barangays, barangay Lias which is bordered by the barangays Lambakin on its north, Saog on the west and Ibayo on its south.It is the third most populated barangay with about 11,139 residents and a total land area of 98.81 hectares. Though mostly a residential barangay with seven subdivisions, it still has some manufacturing industries and commercial establishments like SM Marilao along with public elementary and secondary schools, churches and other local establishments (http://www.marilao.gov.ph/barangay/lias.asp).

I. Origin of the Program

The Urban Gardening Program of barangay Lias is still young which only started last 2008 to acknowledge the project of the Committee of Agriculture saying that there must be a “gulayan sa barangay” which means that all the barangays in the...

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...uld, in the meantime, require more expenses hence, other portions of their budget must be sacrificed. As for now, the program is still far from triumph considering the fact that not much people have started their own urban gardens.

With the performance of the barangay in the previous years, the program might still stand in the next year or so. But if they would not find better solutions to approach the issues and put their thoughts into action in the near future, the system surely will not flourish and consequently, might not even reach the next decade.

Works Cited

Castro, Angel.Agricultural chairperson of barangay Lias. Personal Interview. 10 Sept. 2011.

Lutao, Henry.Barangay captain of barangay Lias. Personal Interview. 13 Aug. 2011.

http://www.marilao.gov.ph/default.asp

Urban Gardening. Website: http://www.marilao.gov.ph/services/news.asp?newsid=275

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