THE Department of Agriculture (DA) 11 has listed five subprojects in the pipeline and to be funded under the Philippine Rural Development Project (PRDP) for the Davao Region.

“All of these subprojects are farm to market roads (FMR) with a total cost of P289.66 million,” DA 11 assistant regional director for operations Maria Febe T. Orbe said during the Davao Business Forum at Derm Path in SM City Davao yesterday.

Under the six-year program which has a P27.5 billion fund source from World Bank, national government and local government units, the LGUs will be the proponent of projects which will be approved by National Project Coordination Office.

For Davao del Norte, Orbe said the FMR project in Panabo City with a total cost of 56.93 million for the rehabilitation of Little Panay-Katipunan- KasilakFMR was the only subproject bidded out by the LGU but not yet awarded.

“We expect the construction to start by next month,” Orbe said.

Meanwhile, the second and third subprojects for Davao del Norte for the municipality of Asuncion entitled rehabilitation of SitioVisayas- Binancian FMR and costing P78.85 million, and the FMR project in San Isidro entitled rehabilitation of Poblacion Datu Balong- Park Mamalian worth P31.125 are already up for bidding to interested contractors since May 21.

The province of Davao Oriental has two of the five projects which consisted of the rehabilitation of Mikit FMR, with bridge in the municipality of Baganga worth P52.28 million and the construction of the LamiawanPSCG bridge worth P64.47 million were still both completing the requirement of the NPCO.

Orbe said a total of 21 subprojects are being reviewed by the NPCO for funding that will be implemented by the partner and proponent LGU.

The PRDP, an offshoot of the Mindanao Rural Development Project, is a six-year national government platform that is designed to establish a modern, climate resilient, market-oriented agri-fisheries sector.
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