DA mechanization program benefits 14 farmers groups

ZAMBOANGA. The Department of Agriculture (DA) distributed last week farm machineries to 14 farmers associations to boost the agricultural production in Zamboanga Sibugay. A photo handout shows the farmer-beneficiaries and the machineries they received from DA through the ric program of the agency. (SunStar Zamboanga)
ZAMBOANGA. The Department of Agriculture (DA) distributed last week farm machineries to 14 farmers associations to boost the agricultural production in Zamboanga Sibugay. A photo handout shows the farmer-beneficiaries and the machineries they received from DA through the ric program of the agency. (SunStar Zamboanga)

THE Department of Agriculture (DA) has distributed farm machineries to farmers associations in Zamboanga Sibugay to boost the agricultural production in the province.

DA Regional Executive Director Rad Donn Cedeño said that through the rice program of the agency, they distributed last week two hand tractors, two rice reapers, nine floating tillers, and nine knapsack sprayers to 14 farmers associations in Zamboanga Sibugay.

The Villa Castor Subanen Indigenous Peoples Farmer Association in Buug town and Catituan River Dam Farmers Irrigators Association in Malangas municipality received one unit of hand tractor each, according to Cedeño.

The DA official said the Liguian Irrigators Association Incorporated in the town of Tungawan and Kawayan Community Seed Banking Association in the municipality of Alicia received one unit of rice reaper each.

He said the Lipacan Malangas Irrigators Association Incorporated in Malangas town received one unit floating tiller.

He added that nine other farmers associations in the municipalities of Ipil, Alicia, Tungawan, Payao and Titay received knapsack sprayers.

"The distribution of these interventions aims to support farmers in modernizing their farm activities to achieve higher yield and income," Cedeño said. (SunStar Zamboanga)

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