Tuesday, July 14, 2015

DTI DavNor hands P1.7-M to San Isidro for Cacao



DAVAO DEL NORTE, July 14 (PIA) - - The Department of Trade and Industry – Davao del Norte turned over recently a check amounting to P1.7-million to the municipality of San Isidro at their municipal hall.

According to the DTI records, the P 1.7 million is the second and final tranche of turn-over under the said Bottom Up Budgeting (BUB) program for the municipality, which is the Cacao Industry Development and Rehabilitation program.

Judecia Ponio, information officer of DTI Davao del Norte, disclosed that the first tranche of P 800,000 was given on October last year.

Ponio also revealed that the amount totalling to P2.5 million is appropriated for farm rehabilitation, and trainings for livelihood of the farmers.

“Since the first release, fifty farmers already availed cacao propagules and training on good agricultural practices,” she said.

She added that the second tranche of turn-over will be allocated for the farm rehabilitation.

The municipal government of San Isidro will also avail this year from DTI, P200,000 for the formulation of investment code. (PIA11, Michael Uy)

No comments:

Post a Comment