BRGY. LOS ANGELES, Butuan City – Participants of the Webinar on Vegetable Gardening Series coming from different sectors of the society learned unique ways to produce indigenous vegetables during its episode 4 on July 17, 2020.

Rhoda Mante, High-Value Crops Development Program (HVCDP) focal person of the Cabdbaran City Agriculture Office, served as the resource person during the said episode dubbed as “Gasto Menos sa Indigenous.”

The topics included during the discussion were its cultural management, benefits, and vitamin content.

Indigenous vegetables or katutubong gulay are crops that are native and unique in a specific area, homegrown and produced through traditional production practices. These vegetables are abundant but are underutilized which include kangkong, alugbati (malbar spinach), jute, the amaranthus species, roselle, wax gourd (kundol), horseradish tree (malunggay), yam bean (singkamas), chayote, ivy gourd, taro (gabi), and Japanese malunggay.

These veggies are good source of essential nutrients needed by humans such as vitamin A, vitamin C, vitamin B, iron, carbohydrates, iodine, and protein.

The said webinar is part of the ATI-RTC XIII i-BIDA nATIn program which means “Internet-based Intervention for the Development of Agriculture ng Agricultural Training Institute Ngayon.”