Trade fair showcases land reform produce

MANILA, Philippines - The Filipino’s creativity and entrepreneurship take center stage as the Department of Agrarian Reform’s Bureau of Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries Development holds the 9th Agraryo Trade Fair at the SM Megamall Megatrade Hall 2 from June 25-27. The trade fair will showcase the various products of Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries (ARBs) from all over the country. 

ARBs will exhibit fresh and processed poultry and meat products, ingredients and additives, beverages, vegetable products, delicacies, jams, candles, packaging materials, furniture, native handicraft, novelty items and organic products, among others.

“This will be an opportunity to network with manufacturers and get the best quality products at wholesale prices,” said Agrarian Reform Secretary Nasser Pangandaman.

Passed by Congress in 1988 as the centerpiece program of the Aquino administration, CARP is a social justice program to ensure equal access to wealth and basic services such as land, food, education and employment.

Since then, the DAR has distributed over 4 million hectares of agricultural lands to more than 2.3 million farmers and has formed some 2,000 agrarian reform communities (ARCs), the center of CARP’s investments and economic interventions. The program has also granted access to infrastructure and livelihood opportunities to ARBs where access is most needed. 

Agraryo Trade Fair is also organized by the ARB Agribusiness Entrepreneurship Development Program (AREDP) and the Philippine Fruit and Vegetable Industries, Inc. and supported by Land Bank of the Philippines and the Department of Trade and Industry.