Mindanaotoday.com | CDO-CPPC, APOO to replicate ‘Bagsakan sites’
By: Jan Albert Araña | PIA-10
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY – To ensure that consumers in the city are provided with appropriate access to necessities sold at a reasonable price, the Cagayan de Oro City Price Coordinating Council (CDO-CPCC) together with the Agricultural Productivity Operations Office (APOO) visited two existing consolidation sites as part of a learning trip in accordance with the proposed “Bagsakan Project” of APOO, one of the committee members of the CDO-CPCC.
The consolidation site is a project of APOO and serves as a site for local farmer producers to send their produce for sorting, cleaning, and shipping out to collective markets.
Currently, there are only two consolidation sites in the city, located in Barangay Agusan and Canitoan.
For district one, the site is located in Barangay Canitoan and handled by the Canitoan Farmers Multi-Purpose Cooperative (CAFAMCO), which comprises 35 members and started as an association in 1996 and was fully registered as a cooperative by 1997.
Meanwhile, for district two, the Tagpuangi Fisherfolk Association, located at Barangay Agusan, comprises 60 members. It started in 2007 and is currently in the process of transitioning to becoming a cooperative through the Cooperative Development Authority.
Being an established consolidation site, both are now the leading exhibitors of the city-facilitated “Kadiwa” and Tabo activities at the CDO City Hall Grounds and other institutional exhibits.
Seeing the success of these sites, APOO aims further to replicate the project in other barangays in the city and to help address emerging concerns on health, price increases, and supply involving basic necessities.
The CDO-CPCC and CDO Committee on Trade and Commerce give their full support to APOO in their move to produce and replicate the consolidation centers in different barangays.
“We will support this backyard economy initiated by APOO. This project will have a great impact on the promotion of self-sufficiency amongst Kagay-anons,” CDO Committee on Trade and Commerce Chairperson George Goking said. (JAKA | PIA-10)
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