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The City Council has enacted Ordinance No. 13120-2016, authorizing the city mayor to enter into and sign the Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) with the Department of Agriculture, Regional Office Field No. 10 (DA 10), covering the grant of One Unit Corn Mill (Mobile) in the city.

Stipulated in the MOA is DA’s implementation of the Corn Program to enhance agricultural productivity and production and as a strategy of realizing the Agriculture and Fisheries Modernization Plan (AFMP).

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The DA is mandated to promote the agriculture sector through the provision of appropriate support services under the Corn Program.

One component of the said Corn Program is the provision of corn mill to local government units for the corn farmers in their locality. This is to provide the needs of local governments of a corn mill to enhance the value-adding capacities of the local corn farmers to increase their competitiveness, livelihood opportunities and income.

The ordinance was favorably endorsed by the committees on agriculture and fisheries and on laws and rules chaired by Councilors Annie Daba and Ian Mark Nacaya, respectively. (sp)

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