DA 3 grants P63-M farm equipment

CITY OF SAN FERNANDO – The Provincial Government of Pampanga started the distribution of at least P63million worth of farm equipment and livestock it requested this year from the Department of Agriculture (DA).

DA-Central Luzon Director Roy Abaya said that Pampanga province received 148 shallow tube wells, five Pisos (pump irrigation system for open water source), 19 mini four-wheel tractors, 28 hand tractors, one floating tiller, 15 drum seeders, eight rice transplanters, 10 combine harvesters, five treshers, five rice reapers, two recirculating dryer with biomass furnace, 12 multi-purpose drying pavement, one flash dryer and one portable rice mill/dehuller from the National Government.

"Poor farmers are a priority of the administration of President Duterte as shown by these forms of assistance," Vice Governor Dennis Pineda said during the distribution at the Provincial Engineer's Office Compound in Barangay Sindalan, this city, on Friday.

Aquino Guzon, 75, president of the Miyabeyabe Lacmit MultiPurpose Cooperative in Arayat, thanked the Provincial Government for the assistance to the first 50 recipients-cooperatives.

"These are all given to you at no cost at all so your responsibility is to take care of these machineries so that you can use these for many years," Pineda reminded the recipients.