By Claro A. Lanipa
MIDSALIP, Zamboanga del Sur – Some P88 million worth of various
infrastructure projects under the Agrarian Reform Community Phase II (ARCP-II)
will soon be implemented in this municipality.
Municipal Agrarian Reform Officer Ferdinand L. Mendoza reported
during the recently concluded information caravan held here at the Bagsakan
covered court in Barangay Poblacion B the following ongoing projects in the
municipality, namely: construction of farm-to-market road (FMR) from barangays
Buloron to Dumalinao with a total length of 1.8961 kilometers amounting to
Php12,009,528.31, construction of FMR from Buloron to Lumpanid with a total
length of 3.16 km with a project cost of P19,233,543.66, construction of one
unit tribal center at the Poblacion with a total amount of P 931,457.70.
These ongoing projects are being funded in a counter-parting
scheme with 40 percent of the total cost of the project to come from ARCP II,
35 percent from the local government unit (LGU), and 25 percent from the
National Government Agency support to LGUs.
Another project, which was already approved and is now
ready for implementation, is the rehabilitation of Buloron Communal Irrigation
System worth P12,299,408 wherein 50
percent would be shouldered by ARCP II, 15 percent by LGU, 25 percent by
NGALGU, and 10 percent by the National Irrigation Administration (NIA), Mendoza
reported.
He further disclosed that the cacao production in
Midsalip covering 210 hectares with 112 Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries (ARBs)
and non-ARBs will also expand soon with a funding of P14 million from the Land
Bank of the Philippines (LBP) through the Agrarian Production Credit Program
(APCP).
Four more FMR projects worth P5 million each are being
proposed and another two units of Tulay ng Pangulo Pang-Agraryo in barangay
Palili are under validation, MARO Mendoza added. (PIA9)