Mindanaotoday.com | DA-10 vows continued support to MisOr under new admin
By: Azbie Talib
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY – The Department of Agriculture in Northern Mindanao (DA-10), through Regional Executive Director Carlene C. Collado, commits to continuously back the administration of newly-elected Provincial Governor Peter M. Unabia in developing and promoting agriculture in Misamis Oriental.
In a meeting at the Provincial Capitol, Wednesday, July 6, Unabia along with Misamis Oriental First District Representative, Christian S. Unabia and Board Member Frederick Y. Khu, Chair of the Committee on Agriculture, presented to the DA-10 management his administration’s priority agricultural programs and projects.
An agriculturist himself, Unabia said his administration will go back to basics and harmonize Misamis Oriental’s agricultural programs to scale up the province’s agricultural output.
“We need to first focus on production. We need to ensure food availability to mitigate price affordability,” Unabia stressed.
DA-10 through RED Collado and the province of Misamis Oriental came to terms in setting out procedures and ways forward in the implementation of agricultural projects cutting across the entire agricultural value chain – production, processing, post-harvest, and marketing, particularly for the province’s champion commodities – rice, corn, coconut, and livestock.
The identified projects will be granted to targeted beneficiaries in the province through a farm consolidation and integration approach.
Issues and concerns regarding the previously implemented and pipelined DA projects in Misamis Oriental were also tackled in the meeting for appropriate resolution.
“The DA is always supportive of Misamis Oriental. The challenge is for the LGUs to actively propose for projects needed in, and appropriate to their location,” Collado said as he vowed the support of the entire OneDA agencies to the province.
Unabia and Mis. Or. district representatives are slated to meet with the OneDA in the region on July 14, for a parallel meeting on agricultural promotion and development in Misamis Oriental. (ATT | DA-10)
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