PCUP eyes urban, backyard gardening as food and livelihood alternative

THE Presidential Commission for the Urban Poor (PCUP) is encouraging urban poor communities to plant vegetables and other crops in their backyard as food and livelihood alternatives. PCUP Commissioner Reynaldo Galupo received in a simple ceremony vegetable seeds and fruit-bearing tree seedlings from the Bureau of Plant Industry (BPI) at its office in Malate, Manila. BPI’s donation, which include various vegetable seeds and fruit-bearing tree seedlings, was in response to Galupo’s req