BAYOMBONG, Nueva Vizcaya (PIA) — The Department of Agriculture has sold 15,000 kilos of vegetable products of farmers at the Nueva Vizcaya Agricultural Terminal with the roll out of its Buying Rescue Program.

Report from the DA’s Agribusiness Marketing Division in Cagayan Valley said the BRP sales generated has reached 15,413 kilograms covering agricultural products such as local and Chinese cabbage and Sayote.

These farmers products were sold through the BRP using the KADIWA outlets and employees cooperatives of the DA in Cagayan Valley.

DA Regional Executive Director Mary Grace Aquino expressed elation of the initial success of the BRP roll out which was conceived to rescue the influx of  products of farmers from Nueva Vizcaya and several towns of the Cordillera Administrative Region at the NVAT and preventing portsharvest losses.

She reiterated her call for a multi-sectoral support by encouraging Local Government Units and National Government Agencies to buy agricultural products through the BRP and spread out in various KADIWA outlets in the provinces of Cagayan, Isabela and Quirino.  

“Our sustained support to the agricultural sector will ease the burden of product losses among our farmers and help them earn better income,” Aquino said.

She said a series of coordination meetings will be conducted this week among LGU executives in Cagayan Valley and CAR to draw strong support for the BRP.

Aquino expressed optimism that agreements and arrangements will be further forged to provide solutions and interventions in addressing the problems of farmers in the region. (OTB/BME/PIA Nueva Vizcaya)