Nabbotuan Farmers MPC and BJMP-Tuguegarao renew marketing agreement under EPAHP program.

 

TUGUEGARAO CITY — The Nabbotuan Farmers Multipurpose Cooperative, an agrarian reform beneficiary organization (ARBO) in Nabbotuan, Solana, Cagayan recently signed a Marketing Agreement  under Enhanced Partnership Against Hunger & Poverty (EPAHP) Project with the Bureau of Jail Management & Penology (BJMP) - Tuguegarao, wherein the ARBO shall supply the needed fresh vegetables by the BJMP.

The EPAHP is a program of the Inter-Agency Task Force Zero Hunger, created under Executive Order No. 101, the objective of which is to mitigate hunger, ensure food security, reduce poverty in urban and rural communities, including marginalized communities and also to establish sustainable agriculture by 2030.

Among the strategies being implemented are coordination with the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) and to establish marketing arrangements for various ARBOs in the province to provide them with programs to improve their livelihood activities. Agrarian reform beneficiaries, small farmers and fisherfolks are the priority sectors of the EPAHP which may help them cope up with the ongoing pandemic. The DAR, for their part, will assist the ARBOs and the farmers in the production and timely delivery of the food items for marketing, support services, access to financial assistance, capacity-building and technical support.

Under the EPAHP, the DAR will facilitate marketing assistance to the ARBOs by linking them to institutional markets through the forging of marketing agreements with DOH-retained hospitals, Provincial Jails, Provincial Drug Rehabilitation and Treatment Facilities, Residential Care Facilities, and provide basic social, agricultural, and technical support services under the DSWD, DA, LBP, etc. Also included are supplementation feeding programs for schools, etc.

The signing of the marketing agreement was attended by representatives from the BJMP-Tuguegarao, ARBO representative from Nabbotuan Farmers Multipurpose Cooperative and facilitated by the DAR Cagayan-Batanes Provincial Office headed PARPO II Val Cristobal and DAR Provincial  Office staff.