Maspasan farmers get P.7 M dam
The Department of Agriculture (DA) under its Ginintuang Masaganang Ani (GMA) for the Rice recently turned-over the P700,000-worth Maspasan Check Dam to the Maspasan Farmers Association of the municipality of Calinog.
The Masapasan Check Dam was completed in just two months, from April 17 to June 15, this year. It is the first irrigation facility in the municipality and will service an area of 30 hectares benefiting 35 farmers.
During the turn - over ceremony, Engr. Remelyn Recoter, DA 6 OIC-Regional Technical Director urged farmer beneficiaries to maximize the use of the check dam and must make sure that water is evenly distributed. She said the area can be classified as irrigated instead of rainfed wherein farmers can have three croppings a year.
The DA has been seriously working double time on dramatically raising farm productivity in keeping with President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo's 8 by '08 agenda of the social payback to the people as a result of the country's economic turnaround.
GMA RICE, is one of its banner programs that aims to attain national food security and reducing poverty incidence in the rural areas while ensuring sustainability of the resource base and enhancing people empowerment.
Meanwhile, Recoter lauded the local government units for facilitating the project and the residents of the said barangay for their determination and hardwork to implement the check dam.
The local government of Calinog and the provincial government of Iloilo are the implementing agencies of the project.
(DA/PIA)