Department of Agrarian Reform - Basilan Province: May 2012

PBD Orientation and Reporting System

A PBD orientation and reporting system was conducted in the eastern and western sectors of the municipal offices last July.

On PBD accomplishment reporting, Supervisor Rosita T. Liciapag discussed the Table 2a (PBD provincial plan form for ARCs), Table 2b (PBD provincial plan form for ARBs in non-ARCs), and Table 2c (PBD provincial plan form for enterprise-based model).

Monitoring and evaluation point person Expedito Acejas and information officer Maricor Dans, ALDA provincial coordinator Juliet Guardino discussed Forms 1-10 and the standard ARC profiles, and ALDA forms, respectively.

CDD coordinator for ARCP2, MARO Minda Jamjiron, discussed ARCP2 self-help group.

Western Sector, July 20, 2011
Venue: Western Sector Office, MARO, Isabela City, Basilan

BDCD chief, Engr. Raymond N. Lintag, delivers the rationale.

Eastern Sector,July 25-26, 2011
Venue: Lamitan ARB Cooperative (LARBECO), Limo-ok, Lamitan City

M & E coordinator, Expedito Acejas, discusses Forms 1-10.

Development facilitators from the eastern sector...

Reposted from August 22, 2011

Programang Agraryo Iskolar

The scholarship program of the DAR started in 2003 under the President Diosdado Macapagal Agrarian Scholarship Program (PDMASP). It aims to help dependents attain education to be able to help their parent-beneficiaries improve their standard of living.

A total of 44 grantees from 2003 to 2010, who are dependents of agrarian reform beneficiaries, stood to benefit from a monthly stipend, book allowance, and tuition fee of P1,000, 500, and 2,000 respectively. Thirty-eight of these scholars saw through graduation from various courses such as bachelor in agriculture, science, marine transportation, education, arts, and nursing.

Now renamed into Programang Agraryong Iskolar, the current batch (fifth) has in its fold 16 grantees due to graduate in 2014.

Below are some of the 38 successful grantees under the scholarship program of the DAR. (Please click on pictures to enlarge.)

Reposted from June 15, 2011

TARBIDC

Name of ARC : Tumahubong Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries
Integrated Development Cooperative
Barangay Covered : Tumahubong
Location : Sumisip
ARC Population : 2,212
Average Household Income : P99,000/annum
Organization : TARBIDC
No. of Identified ARBs : 316
No. of Members : 302
Registered with : Cooperative Development Authority
Date/Year Registered : December 1990
Total Capital Build-Up : P10,724,890.00
Total Assets : P7,267,542.95
Total Liabilities : P17,950,748.00
Land Area Awarded : 1,017.1524 has.
Land Valuation : P40,479,521.01
Land Tenure Arrangement : Collective ownership
Land Use : Rubber- 968.0000 has.
Durian – 5.000 has.
Industrial/residential – 50 has.
Principal Products : Rubber
Economic Activities : Production and processing of rubber, operation of consumers’ store

Historical Background :

Siltown Realty, Inc. and other registered landowners comprising an area of 1,017 hectares formerly owned the property. Sime Darby Philippines, Inc., an international company engaged in the manufacture of rubber tires in the Philippines and Asia, developed and managed it.

When the CARP Law unfolded its force, the rubber plantation was voluntarily offered for sale to the government in 1989. In March 1990, Sime Darby stopped its operation in the plantation and the cooperative of agrarian reform beneficiaries took over its management.

Apart from its being a rubber plantation, the cooperative also undertakes other activities such as:

Tilapia-rearing on a one-hectare plot

Maintenance of rubber nursery

Vegetable gardening

TARBIDC Plantation Manager, Mr. Taha Katoh

(Reposted from June 15, 2011)

General Assemblies in Different Cooperatives

The first quarter of the year normally sees through the general assemblies of different agrarian reform cooperatives in the province.

The following pictures show us around the activities of different ARCs.

Mangal Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries Development Cooperative (MARBEDCO)
Mangal, Sumisip

Election for the new set of board of directors

Election for chairmanship

Oath-taking of the new Board of Directors

Tumahubong Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries Integrated Development Cooperative (TARBIDC)
Tumahubong, Sumisip

Oath-taking of new set of Board of Directors

Sta. Clara Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries Integrated Development Cooperative, Inc. (SCARBIDCI)
Sta. Clara, Lamitan

The Chairman of the Board of Directors gives his annual report.

(Reposted from June 15, 2011)

Coconut By-Products Training

DAR-Basilan facilitated a training on coconut by-products processing at the Farmers’ Training Center (Cocofed), Philippine Coconut Authority Research Center in Zamboanga City last February 21-25, 2011.

Twenty (20) farmer beneficiaries from the Sta. Clara Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries Integrated Development Cooperative (SCARBIDC) in Sta. Clara, Lamitan City participated the five-day training. It was aimed to explain, demonstrate and provide the participants with knowledge and practical skills related to the processing and utilization of coconut by-products such as fiber, fronds, shell, wooed and other cellulosic parts of coconut tree. It was expected that after the training, the participants would be able to earn some skills or crafts in coco by-products processing and would be able to establish an enterprise of producing and selling various coconut by-products.

Two technical resource persons from Timber Utilization Division of the PCA-Zamboanga Research Center handled lectures and demonstrations on the different topics on coir-cement fiberboard; processing of husk, shell, and fronds and fiber for house construction; coconut husk decorticating machine and utilization of coir and peat; and handmade coco-paper production.

All lectures were followed by hands-on exercises, demonstrations, and presentations which were evaluated at the end of each day. Skilled technicians and field workers of the Timber Utilization Division assisted during the practicum on decorticating machine operation and maintenance, baling machine, twining machine, fiberboard production, paper making and coconut fronds furniture and handicrafts.

Basilan PARO II Suwaib S. Ismael imparted the significance of the training and hailed the participants for supporting the DAR programs. Program Beneficiaries Development Chief, Engr. Raymond Lintag, summed up the important points on the values and benefits gained from the said training and other programs for the agrarian reform beneficiaries.

The training was conducted through the Agricultural Enterprise Development (AED) component of the ARCP 2 in Basilan.

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Putting fiber in the baling machine.

Baling machine

Finished product used for furniture cushioning.

Twining machine

Pressing fiberboard overnight in the press machine.

Drying the fiberboard (Product is used for walling.)

Making paper products.

Drying paper products.

Furniture making

Novelty items

The participants pose with DAR BDCD Chief Engr. Raymond Lintag together with their outputs.

(Reposted from April 14, 2011)

Basilan Agro-Fair 2011

Three agrarian reform communities showcased their different products during the 37th provincial founding anniversary last March 2011. These are the Lamitan Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries Cooperative (LARBECO), Sta. Clara Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries Integrated Development Cooperative (SCARBIDC), both from Lamitan City and the United Workers Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries Multi-Purpose Cooperative from Isabela City.