LIBERTAD, Misamis Oriental (PIA)--The National Irrigation Administration (NIA)-10 maps out its 2023 plans as it holds a three-day performance assessment and 2023 direction setting as part of its annual activities to better serve its farmer clientele, January 12–14.

As part of its efforts to improve its services to the irrigators' association in the region, the agency's Engineering and Operation Division (EOD) held a workshop to look at the status and results of all the projects it has worked on, as well as the problems and best ways to deal with them.

During the workshop, NIA 10 Regional Manager Leonila Tenestrante stressed that the agency should be on track and guided to reach its mission and vision, which would improve the quality management system in the region.

"Everything in the engineering and operations division should be synergized, from the surveying and planning down to the implementation for a progressive and fast-paced delivery of services," Tenestrante shared.

In addition, EOD Division Manager Remegio Ang highlights the challenges that the new NIA Administrator Eduardo Guillen has laid down for its personnel, that the agency must support the president’s vision to reduce poverty and promote inclusive growth in rural areas aside from its mandate to provide irrigation waters to the farmlands of its beneficiaries.

"We continually prove to be relevant in this society by making projects that could raise farmers from the poverty threshold," Ang said.

The workshop bore output on the upcoming activities for CY 2023 that aim to strengthen the directions and services of the agency and further empower its irrigators’ associations. (NIA-10/PIA-10/Misamis Oriental)