MRDP HELPS CO-OPS, POS ACCESS BIGGER MARKET

Thursday 4th of October 2012
KORONADAL CITY, South Cotabato, Oct 4 (PIA) -- Farmers from Mindanao have hiked marketing of their produce with the assistance of the antipoverty program of the Department of Agriculture (DA). DA’s Mindanao Rural Development Program (MRDP) reported the program has assisted a total of 2,544 peoples’ organizations (POs) and cooperatives with 134,078 total of individual beneficiaries. With a tripartite funding from the World Bank, national and local government units (LGUs), MRDP is a special project of DA in Mindanao aimed at combating poverty by providing infrastructure and livelihood opportunities to small farmers and fisherfolk in...
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Dept of Agriculture turns over P13.98-M farm-to-market road to Kidapawan City
KORONADAL CITY, South Cotabato, Sept. 19 (PIA) -- A 7.83-kilometer farm-to market road (FMR) has been turned over to the city government of Kidapawan by the Department of Agriculture – Mindanao Rural Development Program (DA-MRDP). In a statement, the DA 12’s Regional Agriculture and Information Division, said P13,984,057.50 was used to rehabilitate the road traversing the villages of Junction, Paco, Meohao and Macebolig. The project should facilitate immediate and spee...
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T’boli farmers get P10-M aid for rubber prod’n
KORONADAL CITY, South Cotabato June 20 (PIA) -- For Pastor Cesar Tandog and fellow T’boli farmers the future has become brighter. “We thank God for making the provincial government, the members of the Sangguniang Panlalawigan, Department of Agriculture, and CFAD an instrument for this blessing,” Tandog said in local dialect. He was referring to the P10 million assistance that the South Cotabato Rubber-Based Farming Multi-Purpose Cooperative (SCRBF MPC), r...
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