Demonstration Sites

One of the prospective demonstration sites for breadfruit under the new initiative is Villar Farm School located on the outskirts of metro Manila. A project of Philippines Senator Cynthia Villar, chair of the Agriculture Committee, the Farm School hosts dormitories where farmer trainees learn about urban and small-scale agriculture. It has a working dairy of Carabao, a distinct Filipino population of water buffalo that can be traced to Luzon island as far back as 2200 BCE and is today the national animal of the Philippines, with value-added milk and cheese products made on site. It also includes several working composting systems including a thermophilic setup that produces a finished compost out of fresh organic waste in just a few days, and a vermicompost setup – both fed from household organic waste generated from the adjacent neighborhood community.