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==Agri official urges farmers to take care of farm machineries== | |||
*Source: http://pia.gov.ph/news/index.php?menu=2&webregion=R12&article=1611333168703 | |||
*Saturday 31st of March 2012 | |||
:by (With report from Lito Salvo/DA-RAFID 12) (DEDoguiles/PIA 12) | |||
KORONADAL CITY, South Cotabato, March 31 (PIA) -- Agiculture assistant secretary Dante S. de Lima yesterday urged farmers to adopt as their own the farm machineries that the Department of Agriculture has distributed to them. | |||
De Lima was here for the turn-over of P18.6 million worth of threshers, hand tractors, and four-wheel drive tractors to 126 farmer groups across Soccsksargen Region; the turn-over ceremony was held at DA’s Research Outreach Station in Tupi, South Cotabato. | |||
He also awarded P2.4 million worth of other agricultural machines to five best performing irrigators’ associations. | |||
“We hope that you will take of these farm machineries. You are very fortunate to have been chosen to receive these,” he said. | |||
Earlier, DA 12 regional executive director Amalia Jayag-Datukan these explained these machineries were provided by DA “in line with the Agri Pinoy Food Staples Sufficiency Program (FSSP) which is pushed by Sec Alcala and one of the top priorities of President Benigno Aquino.” | |||
The is specifically undertaken under the Agri Pinoy Rice Program’s Mechanization Project that aims to enable farmers to improve their productivity through appropriate and efficient mechanization facilities. | |||
Under the scheme DA pays for 85 percent of the cost of quality farm machineries while the remaining 15 percent is shouldered as equity of the farmer group cooperator. | |||
Among those turned-over to farmer organizations in North Cotabato, South Cotabato, Sultan Kudarat and Sarangani provinces and General Santos and Cotabato cities were 37 rice threshers, 112 hand tractors and 5 four-wheel drive tractors. | |||
This “85-15% counterpart scheme”, she added, “encourages a sense of ownership for the part of the beneficiaries.” | |||
To ensure the successful implementation of these projects, she added, a team from DA would closely supervise and regularly monitor the farm equipment given to the beneficiaries. She also reminded them to make use of the machines only for purposes they were intended and not to sell or mortgage them. | |||
Asec de Lima further explained that the machineries distributed yesterday were part of allocations approved in 2011. | |||
“Farm machineries for 2012, are expected to be delivered in August,” he said. | |||
Also distributed yesterday were units of hand tractors with trailers, hermetic cocoons, and portable dryers given as incentives to five outstanding irrigators’ associations in the region namely: PULMAKA IA, MAREMCO IA, LD1C IA, MASBACAS IA and Roxas Silang IA. | |||
De Lima, who is also the national rice program coordinator, explained these farm machineries were granted to IAs to encourage them further to optimize the production potentials in their area. | |||
Besides farm machineries, DA 12 also turned over 5.6 million pesos worth of certificates for the 45 units Multi-Purpose Drying Pavement (MPDP). | |||
Earlier, DA has also distributed a total of 3,116 bags of registered seeds to rice farmers while ten (10) carabaos and farm implements were given to outstanding IA’s in Region 12. | |||
In response, provincial agriculturist Reynaldo Legaste, said: “The provincial government of South Cotabato, farmers and fisherfolks would like to convey our heartfelt gratitude to our Secretary represented by Asec de Lima.” | |||
For his part, Sultan Kudarat provincial agriculturist Nestor Kasador said: “This really spells a big difference to develop the agriculture sector in the region. Farmers from our province are very happy knowing that they would get farm machineries from DA.” | |||
Dante Cudal, president of the North Cotabato Irrigator’s Associations, said: “Ang DA ang nagbigay liwanag sa buhay ng mga magsasaka,nagbibigay ng mga tunay na programa. Kaya, nandirito ako upang pasalamatan ang DA. Salamat at dumating na ang tunay na Kagawaran ng Agrikultura.” | |||
==Koronadal City's Earth Hour activities to last 15 hours== | ==Koronadal City's Earth Hour activities to last 15 hours== | ||
*Source: http://pia.gov.ph/news/index.php?menu=2&webregion=R12&article=1611333090936 | *Source: http://pia.gov.ph/news/index.php?menu=2&webregion=R12&article=1611333090936 | ||
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“We cannot implement a full hour power shut-off because participation to Earth Hour is voluntary,” he said. “After the 15 to 30 selective brownout, it would be the decision of households to continue switching off lights and appliances to complete the one hour.” | “We cannot implement a full hour power shut-off because participation to Earth Hour is voluntary,” he said. “After the 15 to 30 selective brownout, it would be the decision of households to continue switching off lights and appliances to complete the one hour.” | ||
To encourage wider documentation of the city’s Earth Hour celebration, the city government will has also opened Earth Hour 2012 photo contest. Winning entries will be featured in the upcoming Kanami Koronadal Special Edition Magazine. | To encourage wider documentation of the city’s Earth Hour celebration, the city government will has also opened Earth Hour 2012 photo contest. Winning entries will be featured in the upcoming Kanami Koronadal Special Edition Magazine. | ||
==Farmer associations, IAs receive P21-M farm machineries from DA== | ==Farmer associations, IAs receive P21-M farm machineries from DA== | ||