The Department of Farming will construct four Agri-Pinoy Dealing Centers (APTCs), totaling P914 million, that will benefit at least 12,Thousand farmers and livestock raisers within Benguet,New Lebron X, Pangasinan, Nueva Ecija, and Southern Mindanao.
Agriculture Secretary Proceso J. Alcala in a statement said the establishment of APTCs is part of the Aquino governments continuing attempts to enable small farmers generate more profit as they have a venue to sell their products instantly to institutional buyers.
The DA will probably put up 10 more APTCs in the next two years, said Secretary Alcala, who seem to signed the respective memorandum connected with agreement with the APTC beneficiaries, November 14, 2012, at the DA-BSWM norm hall in Quezon City.
Your initial four APTCs will rise up with La Trinidad, Benguet; Urdaneta City, Pangasinan; Cabanatuan City, Nueva Ecija; possibly at Kabacan, North Cotabato.
The establishment involving APTCs is spearheaded by the Nr through its Agribusiness and Advertising Assistance Service (AMAS) led by means of Director Leandro H. Gazmin, and APTC Plan Director Arnulfo F. Ma?alac.
Your Benguet APTC, worth P460 million, will be created in a four-hectare lot, at the Bananas Fields, owned by the Benguet Talk about University (BSU). It will serve as a major trading center for Cordillera chopsuey greens that include lettuce, broccoli, carrots, chayote,Lebron X, potatoes, and other temperate crops. It will benefit at least 5,1000 Cordillera farmers and their families.
A Urdaneta and Cabanatuan APTCs will have lowland and so-called pinakbet greens as major commodities on sale, and will directly benefit at least 6,000 farmers.
Ultimately, the APTC at the University regarding Southern Mindanao (USM), in Kabacan, North Cotabato, delivers as a Halal Training and Progression Center. It will feature a modern halal slaughterhouse for goat, sheep and meats cattle. It will benefit no less than 1,000 livestock stating in North Cotabato and community areas.
The APTCs are made after a successful agricultural stock trading center, calledSentrong Pamilihan ng Produktong Agrikultura ng Quezon, around Sariaya. The facility was established within 2006, which is one of the major endeavours of Secretary Alcala when he supported as a Representative of the 2nd Centre of Quezon.
Since then the Sentrong Pamilihan has risen the productivity and revenue of Quezon vegetable farmers, permitting them to send their children to school, renovated and put up completely new houses, and bought farm apparatus and vehicles.
Alcala said your support and intervention on the DA does not begin and end using the establishment of the APTCs. He said the farmers, traders and institutional buyers should forge a good and continuing production and marketing agreement to ensure that everybody gains throughout the food supply chain.
One of many APTC proponents at MOA signing were: Benguet Governor Nestor Fongwan, Benguet Rep. Ronald Cosalan, BSU President Ben Ladilad, Benguet Producers Marketing Cooperative President Aurelio Lapniten, Urdaneta Location Mayor Amadeo Perez IV, USM President Jesus Antonio Derije, and Nueva Ecija Vegetables Growers Relationship Chairman Jerry Agpalo. (Catherine Nanta, DA Information Service)
September 17th, 2012 - 04:56pm
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