DA reg’l office bares 2 priority programs
Helping farmers earn bigger profits through direct selling to consumers by doing away with middle traders and setting up the barangay food terminals in every municipality are two of the priority programs of the regional office of the Department of Agriculture.
DA-7 director Eduardo Lecciones bared that farmers are often exploited by middlemen who stand to gain more by buying the producers’ harvest at a lesser price.
Farmers do all the sacrifices but their produce is bought at cheap prices by the traders, according to Lecciones.
In putting up the barangay food terminals, the DA-7, however, needs the help of the local government units to scout for the specific location of food terminal, Lecciones said.
But Lecciones said they are willing to pay for the rent in case the LGUs do not offer free space.
As of the moment, barangay food terminals have already been put up in barangays Inayawan and Sambag 2 in
The DA-7 chief disclosed that they have already made a budget proposal for the particular project and it has already been endorsed to DA Sec. Arthur Yap.
The barangay food terminals, along with the ‘Gulayan ng Masa,’ are part of the government’s hunger mitigation programs that President Gloria Arroyo wanted to speed up in order to fight poverty. — Jasmin R. Uy/LPM
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