P7.2M Worth of Agri-fishery Equipment for Camotes

Governor Hilario P. Davide III distributed P7.2 million worth of agri-fishery inputs to the four towns in Camotes Island last Oct. 20.

These fishing gears include fish cages, fish coral, fish pots, crab pots, set longline, seaweeds and fish aggregating devices.

These were part of the P33-million rehabilitation plan of the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources 7 for those affected by typhoon Yolanda last November 2013.

The towns of Pilar, Poro, San Francisco, and Tudela were among the 16 local government units in the north that were affected by the typhoon.

Davide and the Provincial Agriculturist Office also turned over anti-post harvest losses farm equipment and infrastructure.

These are four corn mills for the farmer-beneficiaries in each town and three multipurpose drying pavements worth P800,000 for farmers associations in San Francisco and Poro.

Davide also distributed corn and vegetable seeds to the farmers as part of Capitol’s El Niño intervention program.

Some 34 farmers also received indemnity checks with a total amount of P153,000 for their damaged crops.

Each corn mill, which is worth P100,000, was designed by the Institute of Agricultural Engineering of the University of the Philippines-Los Baños.

Earlier in the municipality of Tudela, Gov. Davide also turned over four small farm tractors (worth P600,000).

The governor also inspected the P15-million farm-to-market road (FMR) and P500,000 trading center in Barangay Villahermosa. The FMR is already 80 percent complete, according to Provincial Agriculturist Officer-in-Charge Roldan Saragena.

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