ROXAS CITY – A symbolic turnover of a tramline project will be led by Agriculture Secretary Proseso Alcala during the Farmer’s Day on April 14 at the Capiz Gym here.
A farmers’ group in Tapaz town will receive the P4.3-million agricultural tramline system project for fast, easy and cheap transport to produce from farms on the mountains to the nearest road.
Provincial Agriculturist Sylvia Dela Cruz said the project is part of the 171.37-million agriculture projects committed by President Benigno S. Aquino III during his first presidential visit to Capiz last July 2011.
The project will serve about 150 hectares of an agricultural area in Barangay Daan Sur and Daan Norte in the municipality planted with cassava, camote, banana, special rice (aromatic) and other high value commercial crops.
“The tramline will also be an income-generating project for the group who will manage the project as a corresponding fee per kilo will be charged in the transportation of the products,” Dela Cruz added.
Aside from the tramline project, the Department of Agriculture (DA) will also distribute farm machineries and crop insurance certificates during the gathering of about 3,500 Capiceño farmers in time with this year’s “Capiztahan” celebration in view of the 111th foundation anniversary of the establishment of the province’s civil government.
In February, about 6,800 bags of fertilizer from DA that also form part of Pres. Aquino’s pledge to the farmers in the province were distributed by the Office of the Provincial Agriculturist (OPA) in the various local government units (LGUs) provincewide.
The fertilizer distribution was in line with the DA’s rice ratooning project.
Ratooning is a technique where the rice stubbles after main harvest are allowed to produce new growth that will bear new panicles that are harvestable in just 45 to 60 days later. (ALEX LUMAQUE/PIA-Capiz)
