Kalinaw News: Former UGMO members receive farm inputs from DA in Bukidnon

Posted to the Kalinaw News Website (Aug 3, 2021): Former UGMO members receive farm inputs from DA in Bukidnon



MARAMAG, Bukidnon – On 30 August 2021, the Municipal Agriculture Office of Cabangalasan under the Department of Agriculture Region-10 (DA R-10) together with 88th Infantry Maringal Battalion, 4th Infantry Division Philippine Army handed over farm inputs composed of fourteen (14) bags of Hybrid Corn Seeds and ninety-eight (98) sacks fertilizer to twenty-eight (28) members of Underground Mass Organization (UGMO) at MMAD eatery, Barangay Poblacion, Cabanglasan, Bukidnon.

The simple turn-over ceremony was attended by Anita Macabugto Ph.D., Municipal Agriculturist Officer of Cabanglasan, PCpt Melchor Saraus, Chief of Police, Cabanglasan MPS, and Lieutenant Colonel Christian James P Vingno, Commanding Officer of 88IB.

Anita Macabugto Ph.D., Municipal Agriculturist Officer of Cabanglasan, in her message, we should be thankful to the Department of Agriculture for extending help by providing farm inputs and to LGU of Cabanglasan led by Hon. Renante V. Inocando for prioritizing their concern on farm inputs as one basic component in farming. She reminds the beneficiaries to use the farm inputs for their livelihood and shares a little knowledge on basic farming.

The recipients of the said support are mostly residents of Sitio Mainaga, Barangay Iba, Cabanglasan Bukidnon. The said sitio is one of the CTG’s stronghold areas where Guerilla Front Malayag operates. Considered to be a geographically isolated and disadvantaged area (GIDA) wherein most of the residents are peasant, the land issue is being exploited by the CTGs in their effort to organize the said community.

With the conduct of the Community Support Program (CSP) in the area last 04 April 2021, a total of 63 individuals sympathetic to the CGTs surrendered. Relative to this, on July 16 to 18, 2021, a 3-day Live-in and De-radicalization Seminar was conducted allowing them to denounce and withdraw their support to the CTGs in the area and eventually declare the said group as Persona-non-Grata.

In his remark, Lieutenant Colonel Christian James P. Vingno, Commanding officer of 88IB, expressed his appreciation for the unwavering support of other partner agencies and stakeholders. “He also recognized the efforts of the CSP team deployed in the said sitio for performing well in the conduct of their assigned tasks. 88IB is always ready to ensure the safe and timely delivery of essential services, programs, and interventions by the different government agencies to help facilitate the creation of conflict resilient communities”, Vingno added.

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