March 23, 2015
Visayan Daily Star by Rene Genove | http://goo.gl/lNoLzE
DAR-Negros Oriental will distribute eight sets of farm facilities to identified agrarian reform beneficiaries’ organizations, or ARBOs, in Negros Oriental when the required documents are ready.
Provincial Agrarian Reform Program Officer II, Louie Naranjo, said the farm facilities composed of nine four-wheel drive tractor, trailing harrow, disc plow, and trailer, cost P35,892,000.
Naranjo said the equipment that costs P3.9 million each set, is for sugar block farming to be used by organizations under the ARCCESS areas of the province. Another batch of similar units is expected to arrive in the next months. One will be given to DAR-Cebu City for ARBOs there.
He said the recipients of the facilities are ARBOs in Canlaon City, Manjuyod, Mabinay, Tanjay City, Bais City, Sta. Catalina, and Bayawan City, and ARBOs in Medellin and Bogo in Cebu City.
Through the ARCCESS projects, the DAR will introduce agricultural technology and business development to farmer organizations, and provide farm equipment and machinery to improve and increase their yield, in coordination with other partner agencies like the Department of Agriculture, Sugar Regulatory Administration, and the Negros Oriental State University.
Present at the delivery and initial turnover from the supplier to the DAR were Naranjo, PARPO I Elvira Bation, district officer Fernando Sauro Jr. of the SRA, and DAR and ARBO representatives.