Philippines: Albay farmers benefit from DAR pili, meat processing center

Published Feb 15, 2022

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The Department of Agrarian Reform in Bicol (DAR-5) is providing financial services and crop production support to small farmers' cooperatives in Albay province, including the Quipia Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries Association Cooperative (QARBC). The cooperative has received funding for their crop production project and expansion into other businesses through the Agrarian Production Credit Program (APCP), and has also been granted a pili nut and meat processing center. The DAR is providing continuous education and capacity-building training to the QARBC members through the Village Level Farm Focused Enterprise Development (VLFED) project. The farmers are receiving support from various agencies, donor communities, local government units, and non-government organizations, including skills and livelihood training, access to credit, health and well-being information, and farm machinery.

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LEGAZPI CITY – The Department of Agrarian Reform in 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 Buensalida, DAR-5 spokesperson, said QARBC asked for the agency's help through the Agrarian Production Credit Program (APCP) in financing their crop production project and expanding to other businesses. "DAR constructed the processing center through the Village Level Farm Focused Enterprise Development (VLFED) project amounting to PHP570,000 and through earnings from their microfinance program, the co-op was able ...

Source: Pna