DA Ilocos Region - High Value Crops Development Program

🌿🥭 HVC WEEK 2025 – FRESH & PROCESSED HIGH VALUE CROPS AWAIT! 🛍️🍍

Get ready for a feast of flavors straight from the farms of Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao! 🎉

Join us from April 7-11 for High-Value Crops (HVC) Week and shop the freshest and finest fruits, vegetables, and processed agri-products from across the country!

Don’t miss out on this exclusive showcase of top-quality High Value Crops products! 🌱

See you there!

📅 April 7-11, 2025
📍 Main Lobby, Department of Agriculture, Elliptical Road, Diliman Quezon City

1st DA-RFO 1 HVCDP Search for Best Gulayan sa Barangay entry #4, Brgy. Sumader, Batac City, Ilocos Norte...

1st DA-RFO 1 HVCDP Search for Best Gulayan sa Barangay entry #3, Brgy. Aluling, Cervantes, Ilocos Sur...

1st DA-RFO 1 HVCDP Search for Best Gulayan sa Barangay entry #2, Brgy. Dalacdac, Burgos, La Union...

1st DA-RFO 1 HVCDP Search for Best Gulayan sa Barangay entry #1, Brgy. Calunetan, Sison, Pangasinan...

|| The Department of Agriculture - Regional Field Office I (DA-RFO 1) with the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG 1) launched the Halina't Magtanim ng Prutas at Gulay (HAPAG) Kadiwa'y Yaman (KAY) Plants for Bountiful Barangays Movement (PBBM) on March 1, 2023 at Brgy. Casilagan, San Juan, La Union. The HAPAG KAY PBBM was simultaneously launched all over the country wherein the main activity was conducted at Rizal Park, Manila. It is a collaborative project of DA and DILG which aims to address food insecurity and hunger in the country. The project aims to strengthen the capacities of Barangays towards sustainable agriculture initiatives. One of which is the intensification of Agricultural activities such as barangay community gardening, wherein households and communities will be encouraged to produce fresh, healthy and affordable fruits and vegetables from their backyards and spaces, through the establishment of community gardens in Barangays with vacant areas.

Assorted vegetable seeds and seedling trays were distributed during the regional launching. Mr. Sonny Boy Ramos of the Enviro Scope Synergy served as the Resource Speaker for the Lecture on Vegetable Production to capacitate the participants/beneficiaries of the said activity.

In celebration of the High Value Crops Week on April 11-13, 2022 with the theme "Farm Diversification with High Value Crops: Key to Recovery & Sustained Growth", DA-RFO 1 HVCDP will be conducting a Poster Making Contest during the kick-off activity on April 11, 2022, 8:00 AM at DA-RFO 1, Aguila Road, Sevilla, City of San Fernando, La Union.

Mechanics and Criteria for the Poster Making Contest.
A. Mechanics
1. Each participant should submit one entry only.
2. The Poster must illustrate, interpret and emphasize the theme.
3. All artworks must be done on the spot and must be completed within the allotted time of two (2) hours.
4. The poster must be done in free hand using the following materials (bring own material) :
a. White cartolina
b. Pencil
c. Oil pastel/crayon
d. Marker
5. All entries must be pre-numbered. No other identifying marks will be allowed to appear in the artworks.

CRITERIA:
Creativity/Presentation: 40%
Originality: 30%
Relevance: 30%

PRIZES:
1st - PhP2,500.00, with assorted vegetable seeds
2nd - PhP 2,000.00, with assorted vegetable seeds
3rd - PhP 1,500.00, with assorted vegetable seeds
Consolation Prize: Assorted Vegetable Seeds

OPEN TO ALL INTERESTED WITHIN REGION 1!!!

1st meeting with our provincial and municipal hvcdp coordinators- district 1 of La Union

Repacking of assorted vegetable seeds in support to Department of Agriculture's Plant Plant Plant Program to ensure food sufficiency amid COVID-19.