DAR distributes PhP15-M farm equipment to Lanao del Norte
farmer cooperative
Philippines Today of Japan (Home of Global Filipino)
October 29, 2015 - Regional News - no comments
ILIGAN CITY, Oct. 29 (PNA) – The
Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) has distributed PhP15 million farm
equipment to farmer cooperatives in five towns of Lanao del Norte.
Lanao del Norte Provincial Agrarian
Reform Officer Jamil Amatonding Jr. told the Philippines News
Agency the beneficiaries are the following cooperatives: Maria Cristina Coconut
Farmers Multi-Purpose Cooperative of Baloi; Pangi Farmers Multi-Purpose
Cooperative of Matungao; Rebucon Farmers’ Cooperative of Sultan Naga Dimaporo;
Rebe Multi-purpose Cooperative (MPC) of Lala; and, Palao Agrarian Reform
Community (ARC) Cooperative in Tubod.
Amatonding said the five cooperatives
have more than 2,500 farmer-members. They received tractors, trailing harrows,
disc plows, corn sheller, floating tillers and five trailers.
Amatonding said the turnover of the
equipment to the beneficiaries, which was held Monday, was witnessed by DAR
Regional Director Faisar Mambuay; Lanao del Norte Gov. Mohammad Khalid
Dimaporo; first district Rep. Imelda Dimaporo; and, Matungao Vice Mayor Jabbar
Azis.
He said the farm equipment were acquired
through DAR’s Agrarian Reform Connectivity Economic Support Services (ARCCESS).
He advised the farmer-beneficiaries to
put to good use the farm equipment given them to boost their farm production.
(PNA
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