Touching an individual’s life doesn’t only affect a person or two. It always has a chain reaction for the better. The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) Region 6, extended various services through its Enhanced National Greening Program (ENGP), Community Based Forest Management (CBFM), and issuance of Free Patents to the beneficiaries as part continue reading : E-NGP: TOUCHING LIVES OF THE UPLAND COMMUNITIES
The four rural development agencies and six municipalities and cities in Negros Occidental convened in Bacolod City on 26-29 October 2021 to strategize mechanisms and craft the Convergence Area Development Plan (CADP) for Imbang-Malogo Watershed. The four-day blended workshop gathered regional chief executives and provincial officials from the Department of Agriculture (DA), Department of Agricultural continue reading : NEGROS OCCIDENTAL LOOKS FORWARD TO A NEW CONVERGENCE AREA
“Malaki ang pasasalamat namin sa Department of Agriculture dahil hindi lang kami binigyan ng isda kung hindi tinuruan din kami kung paano mangisda,” Henry Michael “Boy” Doliguez said. A nurse turned farmer and president of Kalipunan ng mga Magsasaka ng Patnongon (KAMAPAT), Henry Michael “Boy” Doliguez, relayed that their primary aim is to shift farmers’ continue reading : Convergence Initiatives drove farm org KAMAPAT to transform Patnongon
The Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) distributed farm production inputs under farm productivity assistance to Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries (Component 2) and livelihood support for rural women in a crisis situation (Component 3) to 34 qualified ARBs from two ARBOs in the municipality of Barbaza, Antique. PARPO II Florentino D. Siladan led the project distribution held continue reading : ARBS from Barbaza Receive Farm Inputs from DAR
The DA Office of the Assistant Secretary for the Visayas (OASV) headed by ASec. Hansel O. Didulo, together with Mr. Emerson Ogatis of Antique Research Outreach Station, and Mayor Gerry C. Necor of Barbaza, Antique distributed 50 native chickens and 50 trichantera planting materials to Las Palmas Farmers Association on October 2, 2020, in Barbaza, continue reading : DA Turns Over Livestock Interventions to Antique Farmer-Beneficiaries
Central Antique— A total of 7,163 farmers in the NCI-SRD convergence area received Php5,000 financial assistance through the Department of Agriculture’s Financial Subsidy for Rice Farmers (FSRF) program. Small rice farmers, who plant one hectare or less and are not covered by the Rice Farmers Financial Assistance (RFFA) program, were automatically part of the DA’s continue reading : 7,000 Convergence Area Farmers Received Pandemic Relief
