THE Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) has turned over farm-to-market road projects worth P8.5 million to San Isidro, Davao Oriental to benefit beneficiaries at the LACAMBITA Agrarian Reform Community.
The LGU accepted the road projects that improved and concreted the Junction National Highway to Talisay FMR and the Bangkok 1 to Purok Dahlia.
LACAMBITA ARC covers the barangays of La Union, Cambaleon, Bitaogan and Talisay that have about 11,000 population who are mainly depending on farming as their livelihood and enterprise.
The DAR-ARISP III (Agrarian Reform Infrastructure Support Projects phase III) implemented the road projects, with funding from Japan Bank for International Corporation (JBIC).
DAR regional director Datu Yusoph B. Mama emphasized that the project assistance aimed to increase opportunities for farmers to make their farm productive and increase their income, thus improve their standard of living.
Mama said the farmers› sector is one of the two important sectors in the society whose role is to produce food for the country.
He said that with the projects given to them, the farmers must value the blessings they have received and feel the sincerity of the government implementers in doing their works.
DAR provincial agrarian reform officer Venchito S. Mandap said that the national government strives to support the needs of the farmers. He added that the recipients of the projects must protect and take care of the projects as their contribution for sustainability.
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