PIAT UGM Involvement in Realizing Jogja as a Vegetable City

The urban’s food security is an important thing to realize at this COVID-19 pandemic. It is based on the limitation and the disturbance by the government’s policy (PSBB) that the food suppliers who mostly live in the village are getting more difficult to be reached.

The urban citizens are starting to realize the importance of consuming healthy cultivated crops. It later encourages the Kricak’s locals to create a farmer association called ‘Ngremboko’. The association has been established since 2015 and produces a program that utilizes the narrow and empty space of the people as cultivation land. This program is called Vegetable Village (Kampung Sayur) and Vegetable Alley (Lorong Sayur). read more