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.
