SOON TO RISE. The perspective drawing of the Department of Agrarian Reform-Bicol's new office building that will be constructed in Legazpi City. Gerard Buensalida, DAR-5 spokesperson, said on Thursday (May 5, 2022) he is pleased that they will now have their own office after renting for many years. (Photo courtesy of DAR-Bicol) LEGAZPI CITY - A PHP75-million building will soon rise in the regional government center here and is expected to help ease the workflow of transactions and give convenience to the clients of the Department of Agrarian Reform in Bicol (DAR-5), particularly the farmers. The three-storey building to be constructed on a 4,352 square meter lot anytime after the election will be funded by the General Appropriations Act and is expected to be completed by 2023. Gerard Buensalida, DAR-5 spokesperson, in an interview, said the building will be the new home of the DAR-Bicol regional office as well as the Albay Provincial Agrarian Reform Office. "The ground floor a
SUPPORT TO FARMERS. This undated photo shows the newly constructed pili and meat processing center for a cooperative in Cabraran Grande, a far-flung barangay in Jovellar, Albay. The facility was a grant from the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) through its Village Level Farm Focused Enterprise Development (VFLED) project that helps farmers increase their crop production. (Photo courtesy of Gerard Buensalida) LEGAZPI CITY - The Department of Agrarian and Reform-Bicol (DAR-5) has been helping small farmers' cooperatives in remote villages of Albay province to grow their livelihood by giving them access to financial services and granting them crop production support. One of the beneficiaries of DAR interventions is the Quipia Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries Association Cooperative (QARBC), which has 121 farmer-members in Cabraran Grande, a distant highland barangay in Jovellar town that was recently granted a pili nut and meat processing center. In an interview on Tuesday, Gerard Bue