ARBOs to feed 800 pupils

This resulted after Provincial Agrarian Reform Program Officer (PARPO) Leovigildo Monge and Mayor Melchor Nacario formalized last week the alliance between the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) and the local government unit (LGU) by signing a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to effectively implement the Partnership Against Hunger and Poverty (PAHP) program that would enhance supplemental feeding program in day care centers here.

It likewise provided the ARBOs a ready market for their farm produce. Under the agreement, the LGU will buy ingredients for the supplemental feeding program of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) for day care children from the four identified ARBOs.

However, Rana explained to the farmers that the latter may deliver their products in a weekly basis

She also assured the ARBOs that their products will be purchased at prevailing market price.

PAHP is a convergence strategy to integrate and strengthen development framework among national government agencies, LGUs and other stakeholders wherein complimentary human, physical and financial resources are efficiently and effectively deployed addressing critical concerns in hunger mitigation, food security and poverty reduction. (JOSE ALSMITH L. SORIA,)