PRDP provides marketing projects to 3 Zambales farmers’ organizations
THE Philippine Rural Development Project (PRDP) has picked three (3) agrarian reform beneficiaries’ organizations (ARBOs) in Zambales to be the recipients of marketing projects aimed at increasing their income, enhancing economic activities, and spurring rural development.
Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) Zambales provincial agrarian reform program officer, Engr. Eric T. San Luis identified the three lucky ARBOs as the Santa Cruz Mango Growers Multi-Purpose Cooperative, the Amungan Farmers Multi-Purpose Cooperative, and the San Marcelino Corn Producers Cooperative.
San Luis said the projects include the establishment of two (2) mango trading stations, one in Santa Cruz for the Santa Cruz Mango Growers MPC and the other in Iba town for the Amungan Farmers MPC. The cattle breeding farm would be put for the San Marcelino Corn Producers Cooperative in San Marcelino, Zambales.
San Luis said the projects would provide the 3 ARBOs marketing outlets for their produce to encourage them to enhance their productivity, increase the income of their respective members and promote development of the province.
The PRDP is pursuing the projects, in partnership with the Zambales provincial government and the private sector, to ease the burden of the farmers, who badly needed marketing avenues for their harvests.
The projects are being implemented in conformity with the local government’s platform for a modern, climate-smart and market-oriented agri-fishery sector.
Under the project, the PRDP would provide the key infrastructure, facilities, technology, and information with the end in view of raising household income, productivity, and competitiveness of farmers and fisherfolks in the province.
Zambales Governor Hermogenes E. Ebdane Jr. lauded the PRDP and the DAR for taking into consideration the economic well-being of his farmer-constituents.