TRINIDAD, Bohol, Sept. 1 (PIA) – Governor Erico Aristotle Aumentado is eyeing to make the Trinidad town the center of the clustered area for cassava and corn.

This was announced by Trinidad Mayor Atty. Roberto C. Cajes while speaking during the culmination program celebrating the town’s 75th founding anniversary at the municipal grounds in Guinobatan.

Speaking before a crowd of Trinidadnons witnessing the annual Drum and Lyre Exhibition on the last day of the three-day Foundation festivities, the mayor showed the governor’s letter and shared to the town the governor’s plan for Trinidad.

“While we are advocating for agriculture to be at the forefront of our efforts towards economic recovery, as well as in sustaining increased food production for food security, we are to revolutionize our provincial corn and cassava industry by investing on the significant areas of the corn and cassava program farm mechanization,” he read from the governor’s letter.

The Provincial Government through the Office of the Provincial Agriculturist is establishing a corn and cassava drying facility here plus a machinery shed house.

The machinery shed house would hold the combined corn harvester, brand new movable trailer, mounted mechanical drier, portable feed mill, 120 hp tractor and its accessories , cassava chipper, cassava uprooter, cassava drier, and machineries to cover the clustered areas of Dagohoy and San Miguel.

The project would be advantageous to corn and cassava farmers, especially in the production aspect.

Bohol would need from Trinidad a lot measuring at least 2000 square meters for the machinery shed house and the drying facility.

The said lot could be used for a 15-year usufruct or a memorandum of agreement, or that both parties agree to a deed of donation.

While introducing the governor who was to speak during the culmination program, Cajes pointed out that as a congressman, Aumentado also lobbied for the P69-M flood control project for Ipil River.

He said the project would also provide a venue for a decent line of stalls where the town market’s carinderias would be placed.

He added that by next year, the town’s restaurants would already be located there. (RAHC/PIA7 Bohol)