MECHANIZATION. The Department of Agriculture in Caraga Region hands over 204 units of pre- and post-harvest facilities and small-scale irrigation project worth PHP7.1 million to the Agricultural Resource Center in Barangay Mabuhay, Bayugan City on Thursday (Aug. 6, 2020). The equipment will help boost the agricultural production of farmers in the province. (Photo courtesy of DA-13 Information Office)
BUTUAN CITY – A resource center for agriculture run by the provincial government of Agusan del Sur has received harvest facilities from the Department of Agriculture in the Caraga Region (DA-13).
In a statement Friday (August 7), the DA-13 said a total of 204 units of pre- and post-harvest facilities and small-scale irrigation projects worth PHP7.1 million were handed over to the Agricultural Resource Center (ARC) in Barangay Mabuhay, Bayugan City on Thursday.
“The agriculture department is strengthening the capacities of our farmers with their groups and organizations through mechanization,” DA-13 Executive Director Abel James I. Monteagudo of DA-13 said.
“Farm mechanization will further boost the agricultural production of our farmers here in Agusan del Sur and the rest of the region,” said Monteagudo, who led turnover of the machinery to the top officials of Agusan del Sur on Thursday.
The DA-13 official also took note of the previous deliveries of farm equipment and types of machinery done by DA-13 to other groups of farmers in the region, including the cassava and corn farmers in Agusan del Norte last month.
Among the equipment delivered include 35 pumps and engine set, 12 rice threshers, four rice reapers, thee mechanical rice transplanters, six hand tractors, and three granule applicators cum seed spreaders worth PHP5.1 million and funded under the DA’s Rice Program.
Another four units of cassava chippers and one corn sheller with the amount of PHP630,850 were also received by ARC on Thursday funded by the agency’s Corn Program.
A total of 137 units of facilities, to include two multi-cultivators, three banana chippers, six pole pruners, three mini chainsaws, five grass cutters, six power sprayers, eight knapsack sprayers, and 104 plastic drums amounted to PHP1.3 million funded by the High-Value Crops Development Program (HVCD) of DA were also turned over on Thursday, DA-13 said.
Monteagudo said more machinery and equipment will be handed over to different farmers’ organizations in the region. (PNA)
