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THE Department of Agriculture s Bureau of Agricultural and Fisheries Engineering (DA-BAFE) emphasized the significance of farm-to-market roads (FMRs) to food security.
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EASY ACCESS. A drone view of the PHP37-million farm-to-market road that connects the villages of Bugso and Gapok in Sen. Ninoy Aquino, Sultan Kudarat province to markets at the town center. The paved 7.48-kilometer road was funded by the Japan International Cooperation Agency under the Department of Agrarian Reform-Mindanao Sustainable Agrarian and Agriculture Development and completed in February 2021. (File photo courtesy of DAR-Sultan Kudarat) MANILA - Connecting farmlands to markets has always been part of the Department of Agriculture's Bureau of Agricultural and Fisheries Engineering (DA-BAFE) plans to improve and support both sectors. On Tuesday, the DA-BAFE said since 2016, the agency has constructed 2,897 kilometers (km) of farm-to-market road (FMR) projects with a total cost of PHP29.32 billion. Overall during the last 20 years, a total of 49,042 km were constructed, worth PHP146 billion, according to dataobtained bythe Philippine News Agency (PNA). The implementation for