DAR gives egg production

Package to 5 Bohol ARCs

TAGBILARAN CITY, Bohol (PIA)—True to its desire to innovate and integrate livelihood and entrepreneurship to its land reform beneficiaries, the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) is set to turn-over two sets of egg production livelihood package to five of its agrarian reform beneficiary (ARBs) organizations.

DAR Bohol Agrarian Reform Project Officer Leah Kyra Cirunay bared this during the recent Kapihan sa PIA.

DAR, which implements the country’s flagship social justice program in distributing idle lands to the landless farmers for increased food production and farmer family’s economic uplift, has reportedly accomplished 90 percent of land distribution in Bohol.

DAR reports only about 5,000 hectares of target small land holdings for continuing distribution, have accomplished 1,700 hectares of lands awarded last year.

Apart from land distribution and continued assistance to litigation on land disputes involving their beneficiaries or the agrarian justice delivery services,”the agency is into delivery of support services aimed at improving the welfare of the ARBs,” according to Cirunay, who represented Provincial Agrarian Reform Program Officer Ronald Pumatong, in the streamed radio forum.

The premier DAR support services to ARBs to better position the farmers to quality of life include the construction of farm to market roads, distribution of farm machineries and equipment, irrigation assistance, capability training in the institutional development program and sustainable livelihood program, she enumerated.

Egg production falls under the sustainable livelihood.

Up for delivery of two sets of egg production livelihood are Rizal Catigbian Farmers’ Association; Montevideo Carmen Farmers’ Association; Tolang Getafe Farmers’ Association; Villa Milagrosa Carlos P. Garcia Multi Purpose Cooperative; and Sinandigan Ubay Agrarian Reform Cooperative, Cirunay shared.

As of now, ang ilang gipangayo nga project is ready to lay chicken, ang atong gihatag sa lima ka beneficiaries naa silay tag duha ka set, each set is 60 hedas so bale, naa silay 120 heads nga ready to lay chickens, gawas ana, naghatag pod ta, package na man na siya, nay feeder ug drinker, naa pod ta gihatag nga 20 ka sako nga feeds (maconsume ni for three months, at least makapasugod sila og pa-lay for three months, naa pod tay gagmay nga makinarya nga hatag ana, she said.

With all of these, Cirunay bared that they have encouraged beneficiary groups to properly manage this, so they could operate for the next set of production.

If they manage this well, they would have the capital to start the next round of production.

With project consultants and suppliers, DAR said a team validates the venue for the production, and with the organization building the shed, it would be the way that the beneficiaries also shares in the project, as to DAR. (PIAbohol)

EGGING RURAL DEVELOPMENT. DAR and its support service gets to 5 Boholano cooperatives and farmer groups in egg production projects that could supplement income, increase agriproductivity and position the farmer families into a much better threshold to improve their lots, explained Leah Kyra Cirunay of DAR Bohol. (PIAbohol)