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ARMM distributes 28 cattles to help farmers cushion impact of drought
- Source:http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?nid=2&rid=867494
- Friday, March 18, 2016
- (PNA), FFC/NYP/EOF
COTABATO CITY (PNA) -- An agency in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) has dispersed livestock projects to eight farmers cooperatives in Maguindanao in what officials said form part of the government's assistance to cushion the impact of dry spell, officials said yesterday.
The new ARMM agency called ARMM-HELPS (Health, Education, Livelihood, Peace and Governance Synergy) program, is the brain child of ARMM Gov. Mujiv Hataman which primarily aims to uplift the living conditions of the people of the region.
ARMM Agriculture Secretary Alexander G. Alonto Jr. and Oskie Mohammad on behalf Director Anwar Upahm of ARMM- HELPS Project Management Office, led the turn over of farm facilities and post harvest assistance.
The beneficiary cooperatives, represented by their respective chairmen, received certificates of livestock ownership, farm equipment, and project inputs.
Hadja Susan Unggel, Regional Department of Agriculture ARMM’s (DA-ARMM) focal person on the program, said each livestock project costs PHP1 million.
The entire project covers 28 heads of cattle, cattle shed, forage and two-hectare pasture land, four rolls of hogwire, a roll of barbwire, provision of farm inputs and a training program for each cooperative.
The beneficiaries of livestock projects are as follows: Pagalungan Water Refilling Consumers Cooperative in Pagalungan; Bongo Island Livestock Development Multipurpose Cooperative in Tagudtungan, Parang; Romongaob Farmers Marketing Cooperative in South Upi; Kadtabanga sa Dalpa Producers Cooperative; Cabayuan Farmers Marketing Cooperative in Buldon; Pagkakaisa Women’s Producers Cooperative in Datu Abdullah Sangki; Tamar Kalilintad Farmers Producers Cooperative in Talayan; andBangsamoro Lapok Producers Cooperative in Shariff Aguak.
ARMM-HELPS is a convergence initiative of the regional government and is regarded as the centerpiece of the Hataman administration, which has been pursuing the program’s livelihood component through the DA-ARMM and other regional line agencies.