ARMM provides tractors to farmers

FARM EQUIPMENT --- At least nine municipalities in the region have received farm tractors from the autonomous regional government that would benefit hundreds of corn and cassava farmers. It is part of the regional government’s initiative to increase farm production and boost the income and competitiveness of farmers. (GILMHAR A. LAO WITH PHOTO BY ANNE ACOSTA - MINDANAO EXPOSE’)

COTABATO CITY --- The Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) is committed to improve the condition of farmers after it has provided farm tractors to at least nine municipalities in the region that would benefit hundreds of corn and cassava farmers.

ARMM Governor Mujiv Hataman said a total of nine farm tractors amounting to P19.8 million were given to the municipal beneficiaries under the Corn and Cassava Program of the region’s Department of Agriculture and Fisheries (DAF-ARMM).

“The beneficiaries include the municipalities of Shariff Aguak, Pagalungan, Buldon, Datu Abdullah Sangki, and Rajah Buayan in Maguindanao province; Wao, Amai Manabilang, and Butig in Lanaodel Sur; and the municipality of Lugus in Sulu province,” the governor said.

Hataman signed last November 21 a memorandum of agreement with the recipient local government units.

Hataman was joined during the turn-over of certificates to the LGUs by Regional Agriculture Secretary Alexander Alonto together with Assistant Secretary Eugene Strong and Interior and Local Government Secretary Atty. Noor Hafizullah Abdullah.

The distribution of farm tractors is part of the regional government’s initiative to increase farm production and boost the income and competitiveness of farmers in the region.(Gilmhar A. Lao with Bureau of Public Information- ARMM - MINDANAO EXPOSE’)