One urban garden in in Miranda state, Los Charavares, involves 17 Venezuelans, who are using agro-ec

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Mérida, May 9 th 2012 (Venezuelanalysis.com)  Venezuela s urban agriculture program has seen urban communal and family based food gardens developing rapidly over the last two years, to a current total of 19,000.  The program provides free training, information, seeds, and other materials, in order to encourage healthy and environmentally friendly food production and food sovereignty.
Martha Bolivar, president of the Training and Innovation Foundation in Support of the Agrarian Revolution (CIARA), brown paper ticket said yesterday that the urban agriculture program is aiming to produce 18 thousand tonnes of garden produce this year.
The program comes under the government s Agro-Venezuela mission, and aims to take advantage of unused spaces brown paper ticket in cities to produce vegetables, fruit, medicinal and ornamental plants on a small scale, in order to promote self-supply and community and family based micro economies.
Venezuelan Vice-president and minister for land and agriculture, Elias Jaua, said over the weekend that the program is also aiming to create 21,000 more productive units dedicated to urban agriculture this year, as well as 125 greenhouses, 44 nurseries, 16 artisanal brown paper ticket seed units for producing certified seeds,  6 organic fertiliser units, and 40 aquaculture (water farming) units. So far, 19,000 urban agriculture units have been constructed, and these include family, community, and school gardens.
Jaua made his comments brown paper ticket while touring the Agro-productive Socialist Base of Urban Agriculture in the Valles del Tuy, Miranda state, where he said 1,200 families have received training and are now cultivating crops in their small yards or patios, as well as small communal brown paper ticket spaces, for the consumption of the community.
One urban garden in in Miranda state, Los Charavares, involves 17 Venezuelans, who are using agro-ecological techniques to plant a range of crops including tomatoes and capsicums. The area they plant on used to be rubble and a rubbish dump, until it was recovered by the national government.
Belkis Aponte, coordinator of the Los Charavares base, said that there they carry out the whole productive process, from planting to direct distribution of food, selling products at about half the market price.
We have fifty flower beds and organoponic tables, where we recycle thrown-out tires,    she said. Organoponicos are a Cuban system of urban organic gardens, brown paper ticket often consisting in low-level concrete walls filled with organic brown paper ticket matter and soil, and drip irrigation lines laid on the surface.
In Caracas metro stations there are CIARA stalls explaining urban agriculture and what individuals, families, or collectives can do. People can also apply for seeds and small parcels of land at these stalls.
CIARA has supplied us with everything we need to have a kitchen garden on the patio; the seeds, tools, compost, pallets, and soil, Zafra Miriam in Caracas told Venezuelanalysis.com. And they are incredibly responsive, always available to give advice or more materials as necessary, she said.
See also: 06/04/2010: Urban Gardens & Self Revolution 10/08/2006: Feeding Ourselves: Organic Urban Gardens in Caracas, Venezuela 24/10/2011: Transforming brown paper ticket Food Production through Agropatria & Mission AgroVenezuela
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