Through the initiative of Provincial Agrarian Reform Coordinating Committees (PARCCOM), nine cooperative member-representatives of Davao de Oro Inter-ARBOs Rice Trading (DIART) agreed that ARBOs supplying the rice, will sell their products at a very reasonable price to the consumer-ARBOs.
PARCCOM, the partner of the Presidential Agrarian Reform Council (PARC), which is the highest policy-making body of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) at the provincial level, is in charge of coordinating and monitoring the programs, activities, and projects implemented by the CARP-implementing agencies at the field level.
PARCCOM Acting Chairperson Jerry Barayuga said the chairpersons and managers of ARBOs are working hand-in-hand to ease the price of rice to benefit the affected poor consumers.
“I’d also like to thank the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) for their support to ARB organizations especially during these times,” Barayuga said.
DAR-Davao de Oro Provincial Agrarian Reform Program (PARPO) Jupiter Arandela Jr. said the DAR would continue to provide support services in the countryside to empower the farmer-beneficiaries and ARBOs.
Present during the MOU signing were OIC-PARPO Ellordo Guarlberto, OIC-Chief Agrarian Reform Program Officer Nancy Ramos, other DAR personnel, and cooperative members.