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DOST provides livelihood aid to senior citizens in Tarlac town

By Zorayda Tecson

September 28, 2021, 7:46 pm

<p>Google map of Pura, Tarlac</p>

Google map of Pura, Tarlac

CITY OF SAN FERNANDO, Pampanga – Senior citizens in the municipality of Pura in Tarlac will soon have their own source of livelihood.

The Department of Science and Technology (DOST) in Region 3 (Central Luzon), through its Provincial Science and Technology Center in the province, has entered into a memorandum of agreement with the local government unit of the town for the establishment of a food supplement processing center that will benefit the elderlies.

DOST-Tarlac provincial director Karen Yango-Dañez said on Tuesday that locally planted turmeric and malunggay or moringa plants will be processed into food supplements in the center which will be operated by the Pura chapter of the Federation of Senior Citizens of the Philippines.

She said a series of capacity-building seminars will be conducted for the members of the association especially on production to make sure that products conform with the standards of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

She said that a local food supplement manufacturer has been tapped to conduct the trainings.

“The project is timely and will greatly benefit the senior citizens who are among the most vulnerable sector during this pandemic,” Dañez said in a social media post, adding that the members of the federation are entitled to a discount when purchasing the food supplements.

Pura Mayor Freddie Domingo thanked the DOST for assisting the elderly.

He vowed to support the project by offering to assist in the distribution of the products to local markets.

Last month, the DOST provided grant-in-aid assistance to three agrarian reform beneficiary organizations in Tarlac.

The beneficiaries were the Mayantoc Sweet Potato Clean Planting Materials Cooperative, Pindangan 2nd Primary Multipurpose Cooperative and Ventinilla Farmers Marketing Cooperative which received various equipment that could help boost the production and marketing of their products.

Dañez earlier said those technological interventions would encourage more farmers to venture into farming-related enterprises that will provide them with extra income during the off-season. (PNA)

 

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