QUEZON CITY -- The Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) in Iligan City has distributed agricultural farm inputs to agrarian reform beneficiaries (ARBs) in Barangay Rogongon, Iligan City to help farmers cope with the effects of climate change.
Municipal Agrarian Reform Program Officer Cairon S. Panontongan said the initiative is part of the major crop-based block farm productivity enhancement project under the Climate Resilient Farm Productivity Support (CRFPS) Project of the DAR.
Panontongan said forty-seven (47) farmer-members from Tawagon Agriculture Cooperative (TAC) and twenty (20) members from Kalasan Farmers Cooperative (KAC), will benefit from the mobile rice mill and farm inputs in addition to the cooperative’s prime product of falcata, abaca and banana.
She disclosed that the farm inputs distributed include six ( 6) gallon of molasses, 36 farm buckets, 210 pieces of durian trees and 210 pieces of rambutan trees.
“Thank you so much to DAR Secretary John C. Castriones, DAR Region 10 Regional Director Zoraida O. Macadingdang and Undersecretary Emily Padilla for the release of these farm machinery, equipment, and farm inputs to our beloved farmer-beneficiaries, members of Tawagon Agriculture Cooperative and Kalasan Farmers Cooperative, all of Barangay Rogongon, Iligan City,” Panontongan said.
She reminded the members of the cooperative to handle the equipment with care, maintain it in good condition so that they can maximize its use and subsequently gain more farm outputs.
