The Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) urged the Turague Agrarian Farmers Association (TAFA) in Camarines Sur to take part in the government’s Enhanced Partnership Against Hunger and Poverty (EPAHP) convergence program to boost agricultural output and income. DAR Bicol Region Assistant Director for Operations Romulo Britanico said the increased participation…
LEGAZPI CITY - The Department of Agrarian Reform in Bicol (DAR-5) has urged a farmers' group in Camarines Sur to boost its participation in a program that aims to ease hunger, provide food, nutrition security, and reduce poverty in urban, rural areas, including marginalized communities. The 50-member Turague Agrarian Farmers Association (TAFA) in Sagnay town, assisted by the agency under Enhanced Partnership Against Hunger and Poverty (EPAHP) convergence program, received farm inputs, a series of technical training, and other assistance. DAR-Bicol Assistant Director for Operations Romulo Britanico, in a statement on Wednesday, said the program aims to boost their agricultural output, ensure a stable household income, and improve the living standards of TAFA members. Britanico said under EPAHP, farmers will have easy access to a market because the government and private sector partners will purchase their produce directly. It will also create jobs and help farmers connect with busin
LEGAZPI CITY - The Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) in Camarines Sur provided PHP300,000 worth of starter kits to a farmer's group to help its members establish sustainable organic vegetable production. Felipe Vargas, DAR agrarian reform program officer, on Monday said the Burabod Farmers Agrarian Reform Organization (BFARO) in Calabanga town received assistance under the DAR's Enhanced Partnership Against Hunger and Poverty (EPaHP) program. The program aims to sustainably reduce poverty and hunger nationwide by 2030. The starter bundles, Vargas said, include assorted vegetable seeds, garden tools and implements, production inputs, free-range chickens, and labor to install a water pump. These kits will also help the organization improve the community garden it will set up. "Communal production areas will be at least 500 square meters in size, but training graduates with home lots will be obliged to use their land for veggie planting," he said in a statement. Recent