Lanao Sur farmers get agri support facilities
AGRICULTURE • 13:20 PM Sat Oct 11, 2014
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By:
Edwin O. Fernandez with BPI
COTABATO CITY
- Around 4,000 farmers from Lanao Del Sur attended a forum in Marawi City where agriculture officials providedgovernment support to agriculture in the province.
The farmers’
forum, organized by the Department of Agriculture and Fisheries in the
Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (DAF-ARMM) and the Anak Mindanao (AMIN)
Partylist, was designed to help officials identify the concerns of farmers in
the province and assist them access government support, according to ARMM
Agriculture Sec. Macmod Mending.
DAF-ARMM also
distributed P10.7 million worth of farm inputs and equipment to the farmers
under the government’s Agri-Pinoy program.
The equipment,
worth P6.1 million, included 10 units of thresher, 21 units of rice cutter and
1 combine harvester. The farm inputs consisted of 2,599 bags of rice seeds and
1,535 bags of corn seeds valued at around P4.6 million.
Farmer Gafaar
Dorowan, 64, of Piagapo town, was delighted and said the assistance will help
increase their yield in the next cropping season.
We are
thankful to the ARMM and the national government for providing support to
farmers like us,” he said.
AMIN Partylist
Rep. Sitti Djalia Hataman, ARMM Vice-Gov. Haroun Alrashid Lucman, Lanao del Sur
Gov. Mamintal Adiong, Jr., Mending and Abdulrashid Ladayo, Sr., administrator
of ARMM’s Cooperative Development Authority, were present during the forum and
led the distribution of agricultural inputs and machineries to the farmers.
The ARMM,
composed of the provinces of Lanao del Sur, Maguindanao, Sulu, Basilan and
Tawi-Tawi, and the cities of Marawi and Lamitan, is among the country’s top
producers of crops such as rice, cassava, corn, coffee and oil palm, and fruits
like lanzones, mangosteen and durian.
(BPI-ARMM)