DAR grants P4M building to agrarian reform cooperative

 BALANGA CITY, Bataan -The Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) Bataan granted a P4 million multi-purpose building to an agrarian reform cooperative in this City. Chief Agrarian Reform Program Officer Neil Francis T. Pedralvez and Head of Program Beneficiaries and Development Division, led other agrarian reform officials in the turnover of the newly constructed building to Balanga Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries Multi-Purpose Cooperative in upper Barangay Tuyo on Friday.

The building was funded under the Agrarian Reform Infrastructure Project Support of DAR. The city government of Balanga provided its counterpart fund for the construction of the building.

Senior Agrarian Reform Program Officer Norma S. Evangelista said that although the building will be used primarily as a warehouse, it will also be used as an office while the front area will be utilized for solar drying.

Bataan Provincial Agrarian Reform Officer Engr. Eric San Luis is also announced that his agency is almost done in its preparations to provide the required 14 free trainings to the agrarian cooperatives in the province, based on the Implementing Rules and Regulations of  the Philippine Cooperative Code of 2008 (RA 9520).  

While DAR Bataan is the only DAR entity in the country accredited by the Cooperative Development Authority to provide trainings to cooperatives, the province of Bataan ranks No. 1 in the country in the implementation of Agrarian Reform Community Connectivity and Economic Support Services program of DAR. Under this program, complete sets of agricultural production equipment are provided for free to agrarian reform cooperatives.

source:www.1bataan.com