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DENR-ARMM starts multi-million projects in Maguindanao
- Source: http://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1001982
- Thursday, July 20, 2017 4:41 pm
- (EOF/PNA)
RAJAH BUAYAN, Maguindanao, July 20 -- Two major projects of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (DENR-Armm) have been launched here Thursday that will benefit not only its people but the nearby municipalities as well as the whole of Maguindanao.
Forester Kahal Kedtag, DENR-ARMM regional secretary, said the Sustainable Integrated Area Development (SIAD) program and Free Land Titling project under Humanitarian Development Assistance Program (HDAP) are among the anit-poverty program pushed by Regional Governor Mujiv Hataman since he assumed office.
Rajah Buayan is the pilot area for SIAD. Under the SIAD, residents and the local government unit will establish massive bamboo plantation and enterprise amounting to about PHP21 million for its first tranche.
Kedtag said the SIAD project was first introduced by former DENR Secretary Regina Lopez and will provide the beneficiaries technology needed from product development to marketing, and will generate livelihood among the locals.
Kedtag said the project will also invest PHP19 million worth of bamboo plantation in South Upi, Maguindanao and another PHP21 million worth of mangrove plantation in Tawi-Tawi.
"This project is a big contribution to poverty alleviation in the ARMM," Kedtag told reporters.
Meanwhile, Rajah Buayan will also benefit from free land survey and titling project of the department under HDAP.
Before the project implementation, DENR officials conducted a consultation meeting with the beneficiaries of the program to ensure widest acceptance and support.
Kedtag also announced ARMM has allocated PH42 million for the implementation of the similar project in Maguindanao and Lanao del Sur.
"This will solve land conflict issues that, sadly claimed lives, in the region," Kedtag said, referring to clan wars or “rido” that developed due to land dispute.