Farmers and residents of Villanueva, Misamis Oriental will soon experience a better road as the Department of Agriculture – Philippine Rural Development Project 10 (DA-PRDP 10) had a ground breaking ceremony for the construction of Dayawan – Lokong – Crossing Mambuaya Farm to Market Road (FMR) on August 7, 2019.

OIC-Regional Director of DA-10 and Project Director of PRDP-10 Carlene C. Collado, CPA congratulated LGU Villanueva for availing the FMR subproject.

“With this subproject, we hope that this will improve the lives of our farmers, and even the residents of the benefiting barangays. I ask all of you to be vigilant during the implementation of the subproject because our monitoring team is meticulous when it comes to its specifics,” he said.

“Once they notice something is not properly done, the contractor will have to stop its operation until correction of work has been done. This will cause delays in the project completion. We need your help because the success of the project depends on us”, Collado added.

Jennie Rosalie Uy, Mayor of Villanueva, said in her message that the road to be constructed will help in the improvement of Barangay Dayawan.

“This project will make a great impact to the lives of the people of Dayawan. Aside from the farmers, the LGU can also use this road to deliver services to Lokong because right now, we can’t even deliver water regularly to them, and even ambulance can’t pass through it. Furhter, I am posting a challenge to everyone to do our part in monitoring the implementation of the subproject and I am requesting the contractor to strictly follow the guidelines set by the World Bank to avoid delays in the construction of the project. In doing so, we are helping the municipality to avail of more PRDP projects soon” Uy said.

In a separate interview, Robert Cabrera, Barangay Captain of Dayawan, expressed his gratitude as the road construction starts. He said that the residents, especially the farmers will benefit from it because farmers spend a lot of money just to transport their products and still experience post-harvest losses due to the road condition. “With the construction of this road, farmers will soon meet the yield that they deserve”, Cabrera added.

The said FMR is situated in the barangay of Dayawan reaching the sitios of Lokong and a portion of Mambuaya in barangay Kimaya, Villanueva, with a length of 3.74KM and a contract amount of Php 70,366,499.24 benefiting farmers of cardava banana, coconut, corn, cassava, and mango. (Cyrus Seraspe/ RPCO10)