CONVERGENCE PLAN. Various representatives from government line agencies and local government units pose after a meeting to uplift the lives of support farmers in the Soccsksargen region on Thursday (Feb. 2, 2023). At least 113 agrarian reform beneficiaries' organizations in Sarangani province and General Santos City are expected to benefit from the initiative. (Photo courtesy of DAR-12) KORONADAL CITY - Seven government agencies and nine local government units (LGUs) have joined hands to craft a plan that would benefit agrarian reform beneficiary (ARB) members belonging to 113 agrarian reform beneficiaries' organizations (ARBOs) in Sarangani province and General Santos City. Mariannie Lauban-Baunto, the Department of Agrarian Reform - Soccsksargen (DAR-12) director, said they partnered with the Cooperative Development Authority (CDA), Philippine Coconut Authority (PCA), Department of Agriculture (DA), Department of Science and Technology (DOST), Department of Environment and Na
(File photo) LAGONOY, Camarines Sur - Coastal farmers got a boost in abaca production and marketing following the signing of a memorandum of agreement (MOA) between the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR), partner agencies, and the local government unit (LGU) for the improvement of the abaca processing facility. Under the Village Level Farm-focused Enterprise Development (VLFED) project, the Himanag-Sipaco Development Multipurpose Cooperative (HSDMPC) will receive PHP300,000 worth of construction materials for the improvement of their abaca processing center. The cooperative will also receive PHP280,000 for skills and managerial training, as well as marketing activities for 120 agrarian reform beneficiaries (ARBs). The DAR, Department of Science and Technology (DOST), Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), and the LGU of Lagonoy signed the agreement at the Sangguniang Bayan Session Hall in Lagonoy, with the HSDMPC required to bear the labor costs, and the LGU Lagonoy contributing P50,
REVITALIZING ECONOMY.Members of the committee on tourism of the Metro Iloilo-Guimaras Economic Development Council (MIGEDC) convene on Thursday (March 24, 2022) as part of the initiatives to revitalize the council. The revitalization is necessary as the economy starts to pick up after the health pandemic.(Photo courtesy of Velma Jane Lao) ILOILO CITY -The city government here is revitalizing the Metro Iloilo-Guimaras Economic Development Council (MIGEDC) as the economy starts to pick up after the pandemic. The council chaired by Iloilo City with municipalities of Pavia, Oton, San Miguel, Sta.Barbara, Cabatuan, Leganes, and the province of Guimaras as members have slowed down due to the pandemic and change of administration, said Velma Jane Lao, executive director of the MIGEDC. "We are now on work planning with committees," she said in an interview on Thursday. MIGEDC was created by virtue of Executive Order 559 signed by President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo on August 28, 2006.