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GENERAL Santos City – An farmer organization here recently received farming equipment worth P4.1 million from the Department of Agrarian Reform and the city government of General Santos Coty. The Tinagacan Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries Cooperative (TARBC) got a flatbed dryer and one tractor with disc plow, dish harrow and trailer worth P1 million and P3.1 million, respectively, through the Agrarian Reform Community Connectivity and Economic Support Services (ARCCESS) program. Fidel Morales, DAR assistant regional director for operations, and other top DAR officials handed the equipment to TARBC president Zaldy Oñas on June 11 in Barangay Tinagacan. We are really thankful to DAR that they gave this project to us. We have been wishing this equipment because we need it, and last, we can get a hold of it. Oñas said City Mayor Ronnel Rivera and City Agriculturists Office (CAO) head Merlinda Donasco also graced the occasion.

The local government unit of General Santos City (LGU-GSC) is the major partner of DAR in this project.
“We would like to express our gratitude to DAR for giving this project to Gensan. I know this project won’t be limited to Gensan because this can be also utilized in Sarangani and Cotabato,” Mayor Rivera said. “I also would like to commend the TARBC for their good performance that they have qualified in this program. Actually, we can call this divine intervention, because the DAR’s ARCCESS only gives farming equipment to one cooperative every cluster,” the mayor explained. In Sarangani and Gensan cluster, only TARBC and farming cooperative in Kawas, Alabel have met the requirements given by DAR.
Morales said the ARCCESS project is a strategic scheme DAR made to provide farming equipment to cooperatives that have potential to proliferate their yields.

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“Since there is no PDAF anymore, we have come up with this ARCCESS so that we can still comply with the mandate of RA 9700 (An Act Strengthening the Agrarian Reform Program),” Morales explained. “We have limited budget that is why we only subsidize farming cooperatives that have great potential to proliferate their yields. When that will happen, it is our challenge for them to help other farming cooperatives in their production, so that they can grow too,” Morales added. ARCCESS in an intervention program that to help ARBs retain the lands awarded to them by increasing production and engagement in agri-based and related enterprises. Components of the program include provision of common service facilities (CSFs) for production and processing, agri-technology and agri-extension services, business development services, credit facilitation, and land tenure improvement. (PIA)

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