The Department of Agriculture Regional Field Office 8 (DA-RFO 8), with its special project, the Philippine Rural Development Project (PRDP), conducted the Ground-Breaking Ceremony of the Rehabilitation/Concreting of Suba-Kanangkaan-San Vicente–San Juan Farm to Market Road on August 19, 2015 at Brgy. Kanangkaan, Sogod, Southern Leyte.

The activity was participated in by Regional Deputy Project Director, Dr. Jenny Lyn R. Almeria, Visayas Deputy Project Director, Cirilo Namoc, I-Build Component Head Program Support Office-Visayas, Engr. Albert Barrogo, Sogod Mayor Imelda U. Tan, Vice Mayor Rufo C. Olo, Sangguniang Bayan members and Brgy. Councilors.

Spearheaded by DPD Jenny Lyn R. Almeria, she expressed her gratitude towards the farmers with their enduring effort in farm production; helping the country in its mission to achieve food sustainability and food security.

“Without the farmers, people will have no food to eat, and if there’s no food, the world will be despondent,” Dr. Almeria uttered.

She further stressed that the Department of Agriculture is committed firmly on its mission to make the region’s agriculture sector a sustainable means of livelihood for food security and income generation to the farmers.

The said farm to market road project is the first PRDP FMR project to be implemented in the region. With a total length of 4.23 kilometers, it covers four barangays with 438 households and having a total project cost of P 30,387.830.85. The said road project would be very beneficial to the residents in transporting farm products to the town market, which ultimately contribute to the increase of income for the residents of the barangays.

Brgy. Councilor Rolando Terante said during the program that the traveling of the residents and the transporting of farm produce to the town was very strenuous and time-consuming back then because of the absence of road. They had to cross the Suba River, which made it more difficult for them in going to the town.

The Brgy. Councilors and the resident showed gratefulness in finally realizing the construction of road in their barangays. (RGMacapañasInfoACE RPCO 8)