DAVAO CITY-Davao Region’s corn industry is expected to get a boost by the Department of Agriculture’s turn-over of a total of P3.6 million in checks and farm tractors to Davao del Norte during the closing ceremony of the three-day 8th National Corn Congress held at the Waterfront Insular Hotel last Friday (September 27).
“The turn-over of checks and farm equipment is in line with President Aquino’s Food Security Program,” Department of Agriculture secretary Proceso J. Alcala said.
Among those turned over by Alcala included a check amounting to P500 to the City Treasurer of Tagum City to support the city’s advocacy awareness on nutritious and alternative food program, another check amounting to P500,000 to the local government of Tagum City as the counterpart of the DA-High Value Crops Development Program (HVCDP) for the procurement of processing equipment in support of the Tagum Council of Women, Inc. and a check amounting to P200,000 for the procurement of rubber and pepper development
He also turned over two units of Four-Wheel-Drive farm tractors worth P4.8 million or P2.4 million each to the local government of the Island Garden City of Samal (actual turn-over) and the local government of New Corella (ceremonial turn-over), both in Davao del Norte.
“The cost of the farm tractors were shared by the DA and the local government unit concerned,” he said. DA’s counterpart for each farm tractor was pegged at P1.2 million. So in effect, the total cost of farm tractors turned over to Davao del Norte amounted to P4.8 million including the LGU counterpart.
A total of ten units of Four-Wheel-Drive farm tractors were actually turned over by Alcala during the said event amounting to P15-million counterpart for the DA. The other recipients included the local governments of Davao City (3 units), Digos in Davao del Sur (1 unit), PLGU of Davao Oriental (2 units), municipality of Manay in Davao Oriental (1 unit) and municipality of Caraga also in Davao Oriental (1 unit).
Ten units of postharvest equipment were raffled off during the closing program including 5 units of mobile cornsheller worth P112,000 per unit and 5 units of stationary mini corn mill amounting to P152,000 per unit. The winners have not yet been bared.(lovely a. carillo/PIA-XI)
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