A portion of the military’s biggest camp in Southern Tagalog will be converted into a farmland as soldiers turn into farming to prevent a looming food crisis amid the novel coronavirus 2019 (Covid-19) pandemic, which has forced the declaration of a Luzon-wide enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) and confined even farmers to their homes.
A portion of the military’s biggest camp in Southern Tagalog will be converted into a farmland as soldiers turn into farming to prevent a looming food crisis amid the novel coronavirus 2019 (Covid-19) pandemic, which has forced the declaration of a Luzon-wide enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) and confined even farmers to their homes.
The decision to convert at least 2 hectares of the land occupied by the Armys 2nd Infantry Division (ID) in Tanay, Rizal, was made by Maj. Gen. Arnulfo Marcelo Burgos Jr. as his commands contribution to the effort of averting a possible shortage of farm produce in Metro Manila and nearby provinces since farmers could not still go out of their homes to plant, or even tend to their crops.
Burgos, commander of the 2nd ID, said the farming project was a three-pronged approach designed to keep the people afloat during and even beyond the enforced quarantine period.
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