DAR, state university ink agreement to aid agrarian reform beneficiaries
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Monday, August 05, 2013
KORONADAL CITY, South Cotabato -- The Department of Agrarian Reform in South Cotabato has signed a memorandum of agreement with state-run Mindanao State University in General Santos City to prepare agrarian reform beneficiary organizations (ARBO) before they are granted assistance. Provincial Agrarian Reform Officer II Felix Frias said the MOA he signed with MSU-Gensan Campus Chancellor Atty. Abdulrrahman T. Canacan on July 23 would help beneficiaries in managing their enterprises.
Per agreement, MSU will conduct Organizational Enterprise Needs and Design Assessment (OE NADA) for beneficiary organizations which are recipients of the Agrarian Reform Community Connectivity and Economic Support Services (ARCCESS). The OE-NADA would focus on the Glamang Communal Irrigators Association (GCIA) in Glamang, Polomolok, and the Banga Agrarian Reform Community Cooperative (BARCCO) in Malaya, Banga, all in South Cotabato. Both ARBOs are set to receive common service facilities (CSFs) relative to mechanized corn production.
As a partner service provider, MSU will assess the ARBOs in terms of access to market and credit, enterprise capacity, crop and farm productivity, capability of the organization, and the suitability of intervention. These are factors considered vital in the management of their projects to eventually increase their farm productivity and income, Frias explained. ARCCESS is a project of DAR aimed at increasing farm productivity, improving net income and sustaining livelihood of agrarian reform beneficiaries.
An important component of the initiative is tapping professional service providers such as agricultural extension and business development experts to coach the organizations on farm technologies and enterprise development and management. ARCCESS also provides common service facilities (CSF). These CSFs include farm equipment, machineries and implements that they ARBOs could use in their operations and business enterprise. At the signing of the MOA, Atty. Canacan expressed confidence they could surpass their previous similar engagements with DAR South Cotabato.
Meanwhile Frias urged the subject ARBOs to fully cooperate with MSU team on the assessment to make sure that their needs will be comprehensively addressed before they begin with their respective projects. He also thanked MSU for their assistance in the ARCCESS and the other initiatives of DAR. Early this year, MSU conducted similar assessment and coaching to two ARBOs, namely: Cebuano Small Coconut Farmers Multi-Purpose Cooperative in Barangay Cebuano Tupi, and Maguad Farmer Irrigators Multi-Purpose Cooperative in Brgy. Kusan, Banga. Maguad Farmers Irrigators MPC received P1.76 million worth of CSF, including four hand tractors, three power cultivators, and six threshers in April. The Cebuano Small Coconut Farmers MPC also received similar assistance.
Reported by Danilo E. Doguiles / PIA 12
Per agreement, MSU will conduct Organizational Enterprise Needs and Design Assessment (OE NADA) for beneficiary organizations which are recipients of the Agrarian Reform Community Connectivity and Economic Support Services (ARCCESS). The OE-NADA would focus on the Glamang Communal Irrigators Association (GCIA) in Glamang, Polomolok, and the Banga Agrarian Reform Community Cooperative (BARCCO) in Malaya, Banga, all in South Cotabato. Both ARBOs are set to receive common service facilities (CSFs) relative to mechanized corn production.
As a partner service provider, MSU will assess the ARBOs in terms of access to market and credit, enterprise capacity, crop and farm productivity, capability of the organization, and the suitability of intervention. These are factors considered vital in the management of their projects to eventually increase their farm productivity and income, Frias explained. ARCCESS is a project of DAR aimed at increasing farm productivity, improving net income and sustaining livelihood of agrarian reform beneficiaries.
An important component of the initiative is tapping professional service providers such as agricultural extension and business development experts to coach the organizations on farm technologies and enterprise development and management. ARCCESS also provides common service facilities (CSF). These CSFs include farm equipment, machineries and implements that they ARBOs could use in their operations and business enterprise. At the signing of the MOA, Atty. Canacan expressed confidence they could surpass their previous similar engagements with DAR South Cotabato.
Meanwhile Frias urged the subject ARBOs to fully cooperate with MSU team on the assessment to make sure that their needs will be comprehensively addressed before they begin with their respective projects. He also thanked MSU for their assistance in the ARCCESS and the other initiatives of DAR. Early this year, MSU conducted similar assessment and coaching to two ARBOs, namely: Cebuano Small Coconut Farmers Multi-Purpose Cooperative in Barangay Cebuano Tupi, and Maguad Farmer Irrigators Multi-Purpose Cooperative in Brgy. Kusan, Banga. Maguad Farmers Irrigators MPC received P1.76 million worth of CSF, including four hand tractors, three power cultivators, and six threshers in April. The Cebuano Small Coconut Farmers MPC also received similar assistance.
Reported by Danilo E. Doguiles / PIA 12
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