Solar powered-irrigation system in Barangay Baliwag, Magallanes, Cavite (Courtesy of DAR) MANILA - Cavite farmers will now have access to sustainable water sources that will improve the quality and quantity of their crops after the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) recently turned over two units of solar powered-irrigation system (SPIS) worth PHP6 million each. Danilo Arnes, Tres Cruses Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries and Farmers Association Inc. president, said tapping solar energy is an environment-friendly way of providing farmers with water for their palay (rice) and high-value crops. "I was talking to market vendors. They said they would buy our vegetables because it is clean as compared to rain-fed or vegetables that were irrigated from the creek," Arnes said in a news release. "We can plant anything when there is water." James Arthur Dubongco, DAR-Cavite Provincial Agrarian Reform Program Officer II, said the SPIS offers a viable energy solution for irrigated
THE Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) and its partner-organizations will soon develop a 1,000 square meter idle lot into an urban vegetable farm to provide additional income to farmer-beneficiaries in Naic, Cavite. This after a board member of a newly organized agrarian reform beneficiary organization (ARBO) in Cavite, the Brgy.…
The Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) announced the turnover of solar-powered irrigation systems (SPIS) to two farmers’ associations in Cavite. The solar-powered irrigation systems were received by the Tres Cruses ARB and Farmers Association, Inc. (TCARBFAI) in Tres Cruses, Tanza and San Isidro Labrador Farmers Multi-Purpose Cooperative in Muzon, in…