THE San Jose United Agrarian Farmers Association, an agrarian reform beneficiaries organization (Arbo) based in Toboso town, has provided financial assistance to its members and farmworkers recently.
The recipients are 43 farmer-members and other farmworkers, who received a total amount of P43,000 in cash aid.
The amount was sourced from the revenue and capital gains the group has earned out of their current harvest.
Marcelino Hosalla, chairperson of the organization, said they understood and felt the need of their members.
Thus, the association partially distributed the dividends to aid them in these trying times, he added.
For the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) in Negros Occidental - North, the distribution of the cash aid is a laudable act of the cooperative.
It said the financial assistance is to patch up income deficiency due to coronavirus disease (Covid-19) pandemic that halted almost all farming operations in the province.
The San Jose United Agrarian Farmers Association has a total of 42 member-ARBs.
Located at Central Danao in Barangay San Jose, it manages the 15.3 hectares of sugarcane plantation acquired under the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (Carp).
“We will continuously capacitate and mold the various organizations in the province to be an effective, efficient and model farmers groups,” it added.