ILOILO City – Over P1.7 million worth of common service facilities and agricultural inputs were given by the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) to agrarian reform beneficiaries organizations (ARBOs) in the province of Iloilo on Saturday.
Three ARB organizations received assistance during the distribution of EP/CLOAs and turnover ceremony led by Secretary Bro. John Castriciones at Sara National High School (SNHS).
Castriciones was joined by 5th district Representative Raul Tupas, Sara mayor Jon Aying and other DAR officials during the turnover of the said support services under the agency’s Climate-Resilient Farm Productivity Support Project.
The recipients include Nagkaisa Agrarian Reform Cooperative, San Luis ARB Association, and Bagaygay ARBs Organization, all from the municipality of Sara.
The Nagkaisa Agrarian Reform Cooperative got farm machineries, equipment, and sustainable livelihood support worth P372,020.
Among the farm inputs received by the San Luis ARB Association are a water pump, three sowers, four knapsack sprayers, one grass cutter, and farm inputs that cost P371,390.
Bagaybay ARBO received two hand tractors with trailers, two turtle power tillers, two rice threshers with blower, four grass cutters, two changeable sprayers, 10 spades, seven knapsack sprayers, and farm inputs amounting to P1,046, 155.00.
On the other hand, DAR-Iloilo strengthened its partnership with the local government unit of San Dionisio and two ARB organizations in the town after a memorandum of agreement was signed that will link farmers to markets.
The Linking Smallholder Farmers to Market with Microfinance project aims to help farmers venture into agroenterprise and find stable markets through institutional buyers.
DAR-Iloilo provincial agrarian reform officer Harriet Loot and San Dionisio mayor Darwin Bajada formally forged the agreement during the event at SNHS.PIA/PN
