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Rehabilitated farm-to-market road boosts income of ARBs

Posted on September 22, 2013

MANILA, (PNA) — The Dept. of Agrarian Reform’s P7.2-million farm-to-market road is currently improving the economic lives of agrarian reform beneficiaries in Buguey town in Cagayan.

This was cited this weekend by DAR Regional Director Marjorie P. Ayson, saying the 4.078-km road, which was turned over last March of this year, resulted in the rehabilitation and improvement of Tabbac Proper.

Ayson pointed out that the farmers in the area of Junction National Road and Sitio San Francisco Road at Sta. Isabel Agrarian Reform Community (Sta. Isabel ARC), Buguey, could load now as many as 20 cavans of palay on their kuliglig (hand tractor with trailer) instead of the usual 7 cavans and still enjoy a trouble-free travel.

“The cost of hauling their farm produces, as well as selling them to the markets, have been reduced by at least 30%, which resulted in the increase of the ARBs’ income,” she said in a press statement.

She added that the most significant improvement in the lives of farmers in the area is the increased number of traders visiting the agrarian reform community.

“With their community becoming more accessible to traders, it gives the farmers the option to choose to which trader they prefer to deal with for fair price, unlike before when only a handful of traders could visit them and buy their products at low prices,” she said.

Buguey OIC-Mayor Roderick Antiporda said the farm-to-market road also serves as an alternative route from the town proper to the Lallo International Airport in the nearby town of Lallo.

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