ILOILO City – To create marketing opportunities for local farmers, the Department of Agriculture (DA) Western Visayas and the Guimaras Electric Cooperative (GUIMELCO) recently signed a memorandum of agreement (MOA) for the operation of KADIWA ni Ani at Kita market in Jordan, Guimaras, April 6.
In collaboration with the National Electrification Administration, this project is the flagship market development program of the DA-WV. It aims to ensure that food commodities are made available and accessible to the marginalized sector in rural areas. It also wants to provide additional markets for small farmers and fisherfolks.
Employees and consumers of GUIMELCO can avail fresh farm products like vegetables, eggs, rice, poultry, root crops, and fruits at an affordable price on the first three working days of the first week every month.
“KADIWA has been linking farmers to institutional buyers since the start of the pandemic until now. I am encouraging our farmers to produce more to sustain the demand opportunity through this collaboration. We also provide them training and assistance as they venture into agripreneurship,” said Maria Teresa Solis, chief of the DA-WV Agribusiness and Marketing Assistance Division.
GUIMELCO general manager Shirley Laurente and the officials of the municipality of Jordan were present during the MOA signing.
This marketing strategy was launched in several institutions and electric cooperatives in the different cities and municipalities in Region 6.
In support of the “New Thinking” for Agriculture paradigm, KADIWA creates a market system that seeks to help poor Filipino households in coping with the effects of the pandemic.DA-RAFIS-6/PN
