DAR Inks MOA with SCARBIDC

The Department of Agrarian Reform signed into agreement a memorandum with the Sta. Clara Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries Integrated Development Cooperative, Inc. (SCARBIDCI) for two units of hauling trucks worth PhP 3 million.

The memorandum is in line with the DAR’s implementation of the Agrarian Reform Community Connectivity and Economic Support Services (ARCCESS) which aims to improve farm productivity and net income of agrarian reform beneficiaries in a sustainable manner through their organization. The memorandum provided that in order to achieve these objectives, the DAR shall provide professional service providers which will deliver the necessary range of services to improve the performance of the agrarian reform beneficiaries organization’s (ARBO) agri-enterprise and its ability access and compete in the market.  The project shall also provide the ARBOs with common service facilities in the form of equipment and machinery which shall be considered business assets.

The grant shall include professional services in the form of training and provision of common service facility.

Witnessing the signing were ARMM OIC Regional Governor Mujiv S. Hataman and Basilan provincial governor, Jum J. Akbar. Also present in the ceremony were Lamitan city mayor Roderick Furigay, CDA Chairman, and DAR provincial and municipal officials.

(In picture seated from left to right: SCARBIDC Manager, Dr. Macainag, ARMM OIC-Regional Governor Mujiv Hataman, DAR Basilan PARO Suwaib Ismael, SCARBIDC Chairman Abdulla Panglias, Basilan Provincial Governor Jum J. Akbar, DAR-ARMM Secretary Atty. Aquino Sajili)