Ten agrarian reform beneficiary organizations (ARBOs) in the Province of Capiz will be getting the much-needed boost from Pilmico Foods Corporation, the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) said.
The P1.3-million livelihood kits from Pilmico will help boost the livelihood and improve the income of members of the 10 ARBOs, said DAR Western Visayas Regional Director Shiela Francisco during the signing of the memorandum of agreement facilitated by DAR recently.
ARBO beneficiaries Traciano Farmers Multi-Purpose Cooperative (MPC), Esperanza Maclos MPC, Progressive Women ARC, Agdahon Farmers MPC, Pasol-o MPC, Agsirab MPC, ARC of New Guia, Barangay Tapulang MPC, Yating Farmers Association, and Calitan MPC would receive their livelihood kits from the Aboitiz Foundation.
Pilmico Foods Corp. is an integrated agribusiness and food company of Aboitiz Equity Ventures Inc.
“The support would enrich and maximize the profitability of their livelihood that would help them sustain the operation of the cooperative,” Francisco said.
DAR-Capiz provincial agrarian reform program officer II (PARPO II) Anthony Arostique said at least P1.3 million worth of support provision will be given to the recipient ARBOs in three (3) different projects such as Project Bacon or Gild Livelihood Kit, Project Farina or Bakery Livelihood Kit, and Project Omelette or Egg Machine Livelihood Kit.
Each project provision will cost ranging from P140,200 to P520,000 for each ARBO beneficiary depending on the capacity of the cooperative.
‘“The support services which will be given to your cooperative will mitigate the difficulties severely caused by the pandemic. I am hoping that you will enrich the project to be able to help the organization and its members as well as the farmer-beneficiaries,” Arostique told the beneficiaries.
ARBO recipients pledged their commitment to double their efforts to be more productive and ensure that the projects provided by DAR would be successful.
PARPO I Alona Albances said that the support services provided for the cooperative are very timely because of the pandemic.
Also present during the physical and virtual memorandum of agreement signing were Chief Agrarian Reform Program Officer (CARPO) Leonor Lena Juliet, CARPO Lea Ubierna, representatives from Pilmico Manuel Villanueva Jr., and Gregory Canay and from central office Bureau of Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries Development (BARBD) Jeffrey Dalangin.