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DAR to rehabilitate fertilizer facility of Misamis Oriental farmers

KITAMBAN, Misamis Oriental – The Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) is set to rehabilitate the fertilizer processing facility of the Kitamban Farmers MPC (KIFAMCO), located in Barangay Binuagan here, to capacitate the members of the said agrarian reform beneficiaries’ organization (ARBO) to profitably operate and manage their own enterprise.

To jumpstart the construction, Fatima Aniqa Macarambon, DAR Provincial Agrarian Reform Program Officer, led the signing of a memorandum of agreement between DAR, the local government of Kitamban, and KIFAMCO.

Macarambon said that the facility is expected to improve the farm productivity of the cooperative leading to the generation of more income.

“We want to raise the level of competency of the more than 100 farmer-members of KIFAMCO from being mere raw farm products producers into processors themselves,” Macarambon said.

The processing facility building costs Php400,000.00 with a capacity development training component provided to the cooperative members, funded under the Village Level Focused Enterprise Development (VLFED) project.

The municipal government of Kitamban, for its part, shared the labor cost counterpart and additional materials.

Under the VLFED project, the farmers had undergone seminars and training on processing organic fertilizers, and business marketing to develop their farm enterprise and make their business operations profitable.

“The KIFAMCO farmers are now experts on organic fertilizer processing, thanks to the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) for conducting the training. The DAR has also provided them with a shredder machine for easy and fast processing of fertilizers,” Macarambon said.

Members of the ARBO expressed their heartfelt gratitude for the opportunity given to them and in turn committed to properly manage the business and ensure that the processing facility will serve its purpose.

“The construction will be finished within sixty (60) days,” said Rito C. Amao, KIFAMCO Chairman.

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