More than 30,000 men and women from 16 districts of Lima will benefit from an urban agriculture program called `My Huerta', as part of its policy to generate green areas to benefit the environment and help reverse malnutrition, because of extreme poverty.
This program aims to support and promote urban gardens, helping to improve family nutrition and eating habits through the cultivation of vegetables, aromatic and medicinal herbs. It also will contribute to the greening of the city with green areas productive.
The mayor of Lima, Susana Villar, says it will support families, community organizations and schools which want to practice urban agriculture. Stakeholders will receive inputs, tools, training and technical assistance to produce crops.
She also indicated that the cultivation of the products will be made in the form of an agricultural and ecological manner , without using chemicals, and participants of the program will be taught to make their own fertilizers and organic fertilizers, as well as control pests with biological preparations and have a bank seeds .
Food security and social inclusion
The city of Lima plans to generate 2014 orchards , for which started its activities in the Cercado , where a demonstration garden was implemented in the Parque La Muralla .
Every week , neighbours , families and schools in vulnerable areas of Barrios Altos and Manzanilla, devote their time to growing and caring for vegetables that grow in the land today .
Innovative initiatives
The mayor said authority with ' My Huerta ' program recognizes and supports innovative initiatives taken by the people of Lima to improve their nutrition and have an additional source of family income.
The Lima municipality promotes these activities, whose success depends on the enthusiasm and commitment of families, community organizations and schools in Lima and working jointly with the district municipalities .
High-level training
` My Huerta ' foresees the participation of 50" urban Yachachiqs "who are urban farmers from different districts of Lima agro-ecological gardens that have developed and work will enable participants to enrol in the program.
The program also features the participation of renowned Peruvian chefs as Pedro Miguel Schiaffino, who will support the marketing of surplus production through the articulation of a supportive network of restaurants that can buy these products.
Source: Serpar Peru
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