Smart gardening for food security

In 2016, the Philippines was one of the leading food exporters in Southeast Asia, and the country was even the top distributor of pineapples in Asia and exported more than three million tons of bananas to Asian and the Middle East countries.

However, the Philippines still falls short in locally providing some of the staple foods for a typical Filipino’s hapag-kainan (dining table). For the past years, the country has been importing rice, poultry, corn, garlic and at least two million tons of vegetables annually.