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 <center>[[Bataan Province, Philippines|<font size=4>'''Province of Bataan'''</font>]] - [[Bataan Archived News|<font size=4 color=green>'''Archived News'''</font>]]</center>
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-==Bataan investors==
+==Orion chosen as pioneer DA-DAR-DENR convergence site in Bataan==
-*Source: http://www.mb.com.ph/articles/332704/bataan-investors
+*Source: http://www.pia.gov.ph/?m=7&r=R03&id=51676&y=2011&mo=08
-*By: MAR T. SUPNAD
+*By: Carlo Lorenzo J. Datu
 *''August 31, 2011''
-MARIVELES, Bataan — Investors here cited the all-out support being extended to traders by a young solon, boosting further the confidence of businessmen to invest in Freeport Area of Bataan (FAB).
+ORION, Bataan- The Department of Agriculture (DA), Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR), and Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) has chosen a 3,970.86 hectare agricultural forestry area in the municipality of Orion as their pioneer local convergence agro-enterprise cluster site in Bataan.
-Hong Kong-based big time investor Raymond Tan, President of the Luen Thai Philippines, told newsmen that the support showed to them by Congressman Abet S. Garcia and Gov. Tet Garcia of Bataan had further attracted and motivated them to pour in their investment inside FAB, now the fast-growing industrial site in the country due to its strategic location and accessibility to Metro Manila, Clark and SBMA.
+DAR Regional Support Services Division chief agrarian reform officer Eden Ponio disclosed that the convergence site covers four agrarian reform community barangays and 19 non-agrarian reform community barangays with a total of 13,772 farmer beneficiaries.
+DENR will distribute seedlings of atis, guyabano, mango, cacao, rambutan, coffee arabica, and macadamia to the convergence grantees while DA will conduct capability building trainings on organic farming and give out vegetable seeds.
+DAR, on the other hand, shall hold lectures on a number of topics ranging from land tenure improvement to agrarian justice delivery.
+Ponio explained that the local convergence agro-enterprise cluster site project seeks to stimulate economic activity in the countryside and support the Aquino administration’s National Greening Program.
+It was conceived through the enhanced National Convergence Initiative (NCI) issued by secretaries Proceso Alcala of DA, Virgilio Delos Reyes of DAR, and Ramon Paje of DENR last year.
+Ponio said the enhanced NCI promotes a framework of sustainable agriculture and rural development that integrates the people, their economy and their environment; optimizes resources and creates substantial effect in the short-term; makes possible model-building across ecosystems, production systems and rural poverty sectors/small producers in the long-term; defines clear mechanisms for harmonization and complementarity among the three rural development agencies to avoid conflicting and overlapping policies that slows the implementation of programs and projects on the ground; and give local government units a more pro-active role in identifying and implementing convergence initiatives at the local level.
+The three agencies will soon identify more convergence areas in the province in the coming months.
 ==Bataan locator ups capital stock==