TURNOVER. A four-wheeled drive 35 horsepower farm tractor worth PHP1.26 million is turned over to the Hugpong Sa Nagkahiusang Mag-uuma (HUSANAMA) in Barangay Gaway-gaway, San Remigio, Northern Cebu in this undated photo. Grace Fua, Cebu Provincial Agrarian Reform Program Officer II, encouraged the group members to fully utilize the tractor to increase the organization’s farm production and income. (Contributed photo)
MANILA – A total of 40 agrarian reform beneficiaries (ARBs) who are members of Hugpong Sa Nagkahiusang Mag-uuma (HUSANAMA) in San Remigio town, Cebu province have received a four-wheeled drive farm tractor worth PHP1.26 million from the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR).
Wilfredo Ruedas, HUSANAMA president, thanked the DAR for providing them with the 35-horsepower tractor, saying: “This would be a great help to improve our vegetable production.”
Grace Fua, Cebu Provincial Agrarian Reform Program Officer II, encouraged the ARBs to fully utilize the tractor to increase the organization’s farm production as well as the income of its members.
She also reminded the group members to provide a secure place for safe keeping and maintenance of the facility.
“The farm equipment was provided under the Climate Resilient Farm Productivity Support Project (CRFPSP) on Major Crop-Based Farm Productivity Enhancement and Sustainable Livelihood Support,” she said in a statement on Tuesday.
Fua disclosed that under the CRFPSP, the HUSANAMA members were also provided with seeds and fertilizers for their vegetable production.
Fua and Ruedas also signed a trust agreement outlining the duties and responsibilities of the DAR and HUSANAMA as witnessed by Ken Cabataña, Municipal Administrator, Jane Arcillas, Municipal Agriculturist, and Romeo Sumbi, Gaway-gaway Barangay Captain. (PNA)
