BACOLOD CITY – Sagay City in Negros Occidental will soon have a training center for the livelihood projects of farmers association to ensure their economic resilience and mitigation of the effects of climate change to the local agriculture industry.
THE construction by the Department of Agriculture (DA)-Western Visayas of the P2-million Adaptation and Mitigation Initiative in Agriculture (AMIA) Training Center for Menakalaw Farmers Beneficiaries Association (MEFABA) in Barangay Rizal, Sagay City, Negros Occidental is underway. (Photo courtesy of Sagay PIO)
The Department of Agriculture (DA)-Western Visayas recently led the groundbreaking of the P2-million Adaptation and Mitigation Initiative in Agriculture (AMIA) Training Center for Menakalaw Farmers Beneficiaries Association (MEFABA) in Barangay Rizal.
DA-Western Visayas regional technical director for operations and extensions Engr. Jose Albert Barrogo said the construction of the training center aims to increase the production and income of farmers and food security in the community.
Barrogo said that he hopes the stakeholders will help sustain this program as he committed to put in a solar-powered irrigation system to address the lack of water supply in the area.
Aside from the training center, the DA-Western Visayas also turned over P450,000 to the Menakalaw Farmers Beneficiaries Association during the program.
In his speech, Negros Occidental Rep. Alfredo D. Marañon III pledged to support the farmer association with water supply to sustain the needs specially with their farming activities.
He thanked DA-Western Visayas for the project.
MEFABA (AMIA Village Sagay) Chairman Jose Constantino thanked DA-Western Visayas and the city government for the continued support and projects received from the DA-AMIA program.