Leyte villagers' dream comes true
MERIDA, LEYTE (25 June 2005) --
Many areas in the country still has no existing potable water supply. But to residents of the Puertobello Agrarian Reform Community (ARC), it was a realization of a dream when officials from the Department of Land Reform (DLR) turned over here on Tuesday a Level-2 Rural Water System Project.
Water is essential to life and to rural development, said DLR Assistant Secretary Edgar Igano as he explained the significance of it during Tuesday's turn over rites.
Although implemented by the local government unit said project was funded by the Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) through the second phase of Agrarian Reform Infrastructure Support Project (ARISP II) with a total cost of P1,026,573.
Some 491 residents in 271 households are expected to benefit from this project wherein 131 of them are agrarian reform beneficiaries.
Regional Director Tiburcio Morales, Jr. disclosed that ARISP II will have three components for implementation in Puertobello ARC.
After this first component, a farm-to-market road and post harvest facilities will soon follow, Morales added.
Aside from these projects, Mayor Marcos Antonio Solaña hopes that an irrigation project would also be implemented here to make their rain-fed ricelands productive whole year round.
On the same occasion, Igano who represented Land Reform Secretary Rene Villa distributed 97 individual and collective certificates of land ownership awards (CLOAs) covering more than 185 hectares of agricultural lands here and in Merida and Albuera towns to 231 recipients. (PIA-8)
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