DA Special Assistance Project to aid Bangsamoro camps

From the Philippine Information Agency (May 19): DA Special Assistance Project to aid Bangsamoro camps

The Special Assistance project of the Department of Agriculture in support of the Socio-Economic Component of the normalization process shall undertake responsive livelihood and infrastructure projects that will address the needs of the beneficiaries to uplift the socio-economic condition of the rural communities in Mindanao through the provision of agricultural and fishery interventions.

In response to this project, the DA-Regional Field Office 10 is now ready to distribute interventions to the Bangsamoro camps in Camp Bilal in Munai, Lanao del Norte and Camp Bushra, Butig, Lanao del Sur.

The assistance shall be apportioned equally to the two camps that includes 400 bags of certified rice seeds, 400 bags of open pollinated variety (OPV) of corn seeds; 800 bags of fertilizers; 500 pieces assorted fruit trees seedlings; two units hand tractor with implements; four units corn sheller; two units mobile corn mill and six head carabao. 

Validated master list of beneficiaries of the said camps will be submitted to the DA through the Office of the Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process (OPPAP) as a requirement for the release of the said assistance.

Delivery of the agri-fishery interventions will commence right after the compliance of the needed requirements from the beneficiaries’ end.

Turn-over and distribution of agri-fisheries interventions will be on May 30, 2016 which will be properly coordinated with the local government units (LGUs), Armed Forces of the Philippines in Lanao del Norte and Lanao del Sur; MILF Task Force and OPAPP.

The government is optimistic that the assistance provided to the Bangsamoro camps will capacitate the residents and will provide more economic opportunities for meaningful sources of livelihood.

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