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DA’s Philippine Rural Development Program (PRDP) to commence its First Farm-to-Market Road Project in ARMM
Created on Wednesday, 23 July 2014
While the Department of Agriculture ‘s
Mindanao Rural Development Program (DA-MRDP) has ended in June this
year, the DA is now set to roll out its bigger, wider and biggest
foreign-assisted program dubbed as the Philippine Rural Development
Program (PRDP).
Agriculture Secretary Proceso J. Alcala
said in a press statement that PRDP aims to establish a government
platform for a modern, climate-smart and market-oriented agriculture and
fishery sector. It also complements the DA’s major initiatives
particularly in reducing poverty, creating broad-based or inclusive
growth and creating more jobs and livelihood opportunities.
Bankrolled through the country’s World
Bank loan proceeds, the six-year program gets an allocation of about
$670 million or P27.50 billion to cover and finance as many project
proposals from the Local Government Units and farmers’ and fishers’
groups nationwide. Two-thirds of the said PRDP funds or about P18.50
billion is allotted to infrastructure while P6.90 billion will go to
value-chain agri-fishery enterprises.
Maguindanao will be the pilot province
of PRDP in ARMM, where the very first concrete farm-to-market (FMR) road
project will be established in Talayan town as a result of the
acceptance of support of ARMM Governor Mujiv S. Hataman and Maguindanao
Governor Esmail Toto Mangudadatu during a stakeholders consultative
meeting with the WB officials held recently in Davao City.
In another stakeholders consultative
meeting held in Talayan on July 12, DA-ARMM Regional Secretary Atty.
Makmod D. Mending, Jr. expressed his commitment of support to the
project, urging the local officials to unite and support the
construction of the 12.3Km. concrete FMR that will traverse at least
five barangays. Ninety percent of the P147.60M-project will be funded by
PRDP, while 10% or P14,70M will be shouldered by the LGU .
RPCO-ARMM head Kalunsiang Dimalen said
the four components of the PRDP namely: i-PLAN, investment in
agri-fishery modernization plan; i-BUILD, intensified building up
infrastructure and logistics for development; i-REAP, investment in
rural enterprises for agriculture and fisheries productivity and
i-SUPPORT or implementation support. Under the program, the priority
commodities in ARMM are oil palm, cassava and banana, coconut, coffee,
rubber, tilapia and mallard duck, Dimalen added. (RAFID-ARMM)
Reference:
HJA. KADIGUIA R. ABDULLAH
Chief, Regional Agriculture & Fisheries Information Division
ORG Compound, Cotabato City, Philippines (064) 421-1248 / 421-1234
Department of Agriculture Website
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