Tandag City coco farmers receive P400K cash incentives from PCA

By Nida Grace P. Barcena Some 39 coconut farmers was aimed to reduce from the barangays of the rural poverty in the Buenavista, and Maitom, coconut sector through this city have received increasing the coconut a total of P400,000.00 farmers’ production as their cash incentives and their net income. from the Philippine Also, the program was Coconut Authority designed to expand (PCA) through the and/or rehabilitate Accelerated Coconut the existing coconut Planting and Replanting areas by planting and Program (ACPRP) replanting the coconut amidst the coronavirus farms in the country, disease 2019 (COVID-19) said PCA Surigao del Sur pandemic. chief George Duterte A total of 15 Rasonabe. members under the It also addresses Coconut Farmers’ the high demand for Organization (CFO) from coconut products Barangay Buenavista and by-products in received a total of the country and even P136,000.00 while 24 internationally, he members from the City added. Agriculture and Fisheries The farmerCouncil (CAFC) chaired participants of the by Ricardo Fernandez project will receive an received a total amount incentive worth P20.00 of P264,000.00. for every seed nut The said program produced, and P20.00

for the farmworker who will raise the seedlings of at least one foot tall with fully developed leaves as labor assistance at the established nursery of every people’s organization. They will also receive P45.00 for every seedling they transplanted and stabilized on the ground, said Rasonabe. It is both a participatory and incentive-based system approach guided by the PCA recommended Good Agricultural Practices (GAP). With a minimum of 0.5 hectares, a farmer can join the program given that he is a member of a PCA accredited organization or any other formal and informal organizations. (PIA-Surigao del Sur)