DA Grants Miagao P2.5M For Farm To Market Road

DA Grants Miagao P2.5M For Farm To Market Road

Miagao Mayor Macario N. Napulan, center, receiving the check worth P2.5 million for farm to market road.

Miagao Municipal Mayor, Dr. Macario N. Napulan could not help but thank the Department of Agriculture (DA) Regional Field Office 6 through Regional Technical Director Joyce S. Wendam for the grant of P2.5 million for the construction of farm-to-market road (FMR) project during the conduct of the Agricultural Information Caravan and Technology Forum at JRBB Hall, Miagao, Iloilo recently.

The amount taken from the DA’s Grassroots Participatory Budgeting will be used for the road rehab and FMR construction of Brgy. SitioGinesPalaca-Tugura-ao road, Brgy.Igbugo-Cawayananroad, and Brgy. PungtodMonteclaro-Sibucao road sections.

With the most number of barangays in the whole country, Miagao has more than half of its total land area devoted to agriculture which are planted to rice, corn, peanuts, bulb onion, mango, cacao, coffee, banana, legumes, root crops, tomato, eggplant and other high value commercial crops. Last year, Miagao has reached 13,635.12 metric tons (MT) production with 151 percent sufficiency level.

“The only way for this municipality to progress is through agriculture that is why we are enjoining the farmers to be adoptive to the agricultural technologies and to organize themselves into associations which will give them access to different programs of the DA,” said Mayor Napulan.

The FMR project will benefit farmers, fisherfolks and local residents of Miagao according to Dr. Wendam. She encouraged the participants of the information caravan to convert at least five percent of their area into organic agriculture sites.

Dr. Wendam suggested to Mayor Napulan to pass a municipal ordinance on organic agriculture program and to create a local technical committee in their town in order for them to access the various organic agriculture projects such as the construction of an organic trading post which will accommodate the bulk of organic inputs and products of farmers in Miag-ao.

Through the DA-Philippine Rural Development Program, more infrastructure projects will be extended to the municipalities. Thus, Dr. Wendam emphasized to the local government unit and farmers the need to organize and register their association. She also suggested to submit feasible project proposals. 

DA 6 technical staff provided farmers agricultural technology updates and information about the various programs of the agency. Farmers also received production guide materials, corn seeds, farmers record book among others. /MP