Cadiz City’s rooftop farming advocacy got a P15 million boost from the Tingog Party-list group.
“It’s flattering that Tingog noticed our quest for rooftop farming”, Mayor Salvador Escalante Jr. said in a press release on Tuesday, April 29.
Escalante thanked Tingog Partylist for the funds to expand the rooftop farming initiative of Cadiz.
Cadiz started to model rooftop farming during the Panaad sa Negros Festival in 2024.
Then, it made a repeat in this year’s Panaad sa Negros, getting more praises from citizens and netizens, not just across the country, but in other parts of the world, the press release said.
The farming initiative aims to showcase green spaces by converting government building rooftops in Cadiz into agricultural plots, it said.
The P15 million grant from Tingog will be used by the local government of Cadiz to convert the 2-year-old city-run food court into a farming haven.
“We will produce food on top of the food court and we will ensure that this will be sustainably implemented through the years”, Escalante said.
“Rooftop farming, we will make Cadiz not just a driver for an eco-friendly community, but also a promoter of a well-sustained food security mission”, the mayor said.*