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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