GSARCFA – Newly created ARBO

Gubat, Sorsogon – a new Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries’ Organization (ARBO) was born in Bentuco, Gubat, Sorsogon as Nelson F. Espaldon, Municipal Agrarian Reform Program Officer (MARPO) met the ARBs and their households on August 10, 2016. The newly organized ARBO was named GSARCFA (Gubat Special ARC Farmers’ Association) with an initial membership of twenty-nine (29) ARBs and farmers, covering five (5) barangays of Gubat, Sorsogon which are Bentuco, Tigkiw, Naagtan, Bulacao, and Tugawe.

Last August 24-26, 2016 they have attended their very first training on Capacity Development Program of DAR which is Entrepreneurship and Basic Management under the Agrarian Production Credit Program (APCP). According to Julie L. Encinas, Technical Assistant in Gubat, the training was very timely for GSARCFA which is starting Tocino and Longganisa Business. ###

Sericulture: new source of income for ARBOs

DAR Sorsogon saw new source of income for ARBOs through Sericulture as Leonito M. Gaveria, OIC Provincial Agrarian Reform Program Officer II guests in the last day of Sericulture Training of Sorsogon Sericulture Farmers’ Association (SSFA) in Juban, Sorsogon, courtesy of the Sorsogon Provincial Agriculturist Office.

“This is an indispensable technology which we would like for our Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries Organizations to learn,” said PARPO Gaveria.

Sericulture is the rearing of silkworms for the production of silk through their cocoons. This knowledge was introduced by Don Mariano Marcos Memorial State University, La Union whom Fidel S. Orense, Jr, PARCCOM Member in Sorsogon invited to impart the technology to the association.

Juban and Lajong ARCs ready for climate adaptation

DAR Sorosogon conducts orientation on Climate Change Proofing in Juban and Lajong Agrarian Reform Communities (ARCs) under the partnership development program with LGU-Juban.

A need to update their existing ARC Development Plan prompts them to undergo this orientation.

“Juban encounters environmental and socioeconomic pressures exacerbated by climate change, adaptation is ultimately an issue of sustainable development. That’s why we have to integrate climate considerations into planning,” said Leonito M. Gaveria, OIC Provincial Agrarian Reform Program Officer II.

Participated by barangay leaders of Lajong, Calateo, and Sipaya; they highlighted the risks and opportunities brought by climate change in their area.

By viewing development through a climate change lens, appropriate steps can be taken to decrease vulnerability and ensure that project or programmes progress in a way that pays due consideration to the implications of environment change.