Milk Toast
Isabela Governor Bojie Dy (right) proposes a toast of bottled cow’s milk with World Bank Senior Rural Development Specialist Samik Sundar Das (second from left) and Department of Agriculture-Philippine Rural Development Project (DA-PRDP) Deputy Project Director Arnel de Mesa (second from right) during their visit to the Malaya Development Cooperative (MDC)’s dairy processing facility in Maligaya, Mallig, Isabela. The cooperative is the proponent group of the P32 million-worth Isabela Dairy Enterprise sub-project under the enterprise development component (I-REAP) of the PRDP, a six-year, World-Bank-assisted national project that aims to establish a modern, inclusive, value-chain oriented and climate-resilient agriculture and fisheries sector. Receiving the group is MDC’s General Manager Ernesto Lactao (left). (Photo by Joseph Caldino, DA-PRDP)