The Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR-Region 02) turned
over the concreted farm-to-market (FMR) road in favor of the Local Government
Unit (LGU) of Iguig, Cagayan on October 4, 2012. The project costs
P15,400,643.22 funded by DAR-Agrarian Reform Infrastructure Support Project (DAR-ARISP),
Phase III.
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| Ribbon cutting: L-R: Hon. Juditas Trinidad, DAR Regional Director Atty. Marjorie Ayson-Alzate, PARO Gil Acasili and DAR ASEC Jose Z. Grajeda. |
The DAR-ARISP III project is funded jointly
by the Government of the Philippines through the Department of Agrarian Reform
(DAR) and by the Government of Japan through the Japan International
Cooperation Agency (JICA). It involves a tripartite approach, a collaboration
among the implementing agencies. It involves construction/rehabilitation of
rural infrastructure such as irrigation facilities, farm-to-market roads, post
harvest facilities, and rural water supply systems, agrarian reform information
and marketing center building, development of coop-managed agri-business/rural
enterprise/livelihood farmers’ organizations in the Agrarian Reform Communities
(ARCs) through appropriate training and capacity building approaches.
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| The P15 million farm-to-market road (4.5 kms.) at Eastern Iguig Agrarian Reform Community. |
The 4.536-kilometer Farm-to-Market Road (FMR)
traverses the barangays/villages of Minanga Sur, Sta. Barbara and San Esteban,
which are also the component barangays of EASTERN IGUIG AGRARIAN REFORM
COMMUNITY (Eastern Iguig ARC). An
Agrarian Reform Community (ARC) is a barangay at the minimum or a cluster of
contiguous barangays where there is a critical mass of farmers and farm workers
awaiting the full implementation of agrarian reform. The farmers and the farm
workers will anchor the integrated development of the area.
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| MARO Arthur Urata (speaking) and DF Edgar Cordova facilitated the realiztion of this DAR-ARISP project. |
The project was facilitated mainly by the
DAR Municipal Agrarian Reform Officer, MARO Arthur Urata, presently assigned at
DAR Municipal Office at Iguig, Cagayan and Edgar Cordova, the Development
Facilitator (DF) at DARMO-Iguig. The project was strongly supported by the
Local Government of Iguig led by the Mayor Hon. Juditas Trinidad and the Vice-Mayor,
Hon. Ferdinand Trinidad as head of the Municipal Council.
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| Iguig town mayor, Hon. Juditas Trinidad |
In the
province of Cagayan, Farm-to-Market Roads are some of the support services
being implemented under the agrarian reform program which traditionally serves
to connect rural or agricultural areas to market towns, such as Tuguegarao
City, where the major markets and distribution centers are located.
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| DAR Regional Director Atty. Marjorie Ayson-Alzate, The concrete farm-to-market road will provide the community with an all-weather barangay road and will also significantly help reduce the farmers’ costs of transporting their goods and reduce the travel time to the market and trading centers. |
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| DAR ASEC Jose Z. Grajeda. |
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| Project beneficiaries and stakeholders. |
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