DA-PRDP’s P109 million FMR pump-priming economy in Dinagat Islands
The Department of Agriculture-Philippine Rural Development Project (DA-PRDP) in Caraga Region has turned over to the Province of Dinagat Islands the 3.62 kilometer R. Ecleo to Upper Laguna Farm-toMarket Road (FMR) in Cagdianao town, this province. The completed road concreting worth P109.4 million is a joint project funded by the World
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Bank, the Philippine government, and the provincial government of Dinagat Islands. The road covers three barangays such as R. Ecleo, Maatas, and Upper Laguna with 794 household beneficiaries, 777 of which are farmers and fishers. It also benefits 3,947 inhabitants of the said barangays and their surrounding communities. It has given farmers easy
access to the market in bringing their products like corn, cassava, coconut, fishery, and other local products with less cost and time. Governor Kaka Bagao expressed her gratitude together with her constituents for the FMR which she said has pump-prime the economy of the province since after the road was completed, farmers started to expand their production Caraga INFOCUS
