SAN FABIAN, Pangasinan — The agrarian reform beneficiary organizations (ARBOs) in Pangasinan have distributed relief goods to their members and some even to non-members in their communities.
The Aramal-Tocok Multi-Purpose Cooperative (MPC) in San Fabian has distributed relief packs containing rice and eggs to its 140 members as the first batch of their relief operation.
In Mapandan town, the Women’s Unity for Progress and Farmer’s MPC of Barangay Primicias offered free water refilling for its members and non-members in their community.
The Lambayan MPC, also in Mapandan town, has distributed five kilograms of rice each to its 621 members, while the other 58 members were given cash worth five kilos of rice through their savings account.
The group has also distributed food packs to the front-liners in their public market.
Meanwhile, the Colayo Organic Farmers Association Inc. in Bani town has given five kilograms of rice each as relief to its 65 members.
The Mapolopolo Agrarian Reform Cooperative in Basista town has distributed rice and canned goods to its members and some non-members.
The Bayanihan Hundred Islands Agrarian Reform Cooperative in Alaminos City has donated sacks of rice to the local government unit.
Members of the San Fabian Council of Women Inc. in Barangay Poblacion San Fabian town received relief packs containing rice, biscuits, and milk. The group has a total of 550 members.
The Southern Binmaley Multi-Purpose Cooperative in Binmaley town offered food, chairs, and light to their barangay security force manning checkpoints in their community.
Moreover, the Bantog Samahang Nayon MPC in Asingan town has distributed relief packs to its indigent members and families in their community.
Pangasinan has a total of 86 ARBOs.
In a phone interview Thursday, Pangasinan provincial agrarian reform program officer Ma. Ana Francisco said the Department of Agrarian Reform continuously assists the ARBOs in marketing their products, as well as in providing necessary permits for the delivery of their goods.
“We have given them (a) quarantine pass and we help them market their products to the local government units. In fact, some ARBOs are now planting again,” she said.
The DAR-Pangasinan also issued identification cards to the certificate of land ownership award holders as well as leaseholders for them to be easily linked to national government agencies, she added.
Francisco said some of the agrarian reform beneficiaries, who are planting in one hectare or less land, were listed as recipients of the Department of Agriculture’s (DA) cash subsidy to small farmers.
“There are about 191 of them, and we hope they will be approved by the DA,” she added. (PNA)
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