DA-10 strengthens public-private partnership to mobilize agri programs in NorMin

 

Cagayan de Oro City – The Department of Agriculture – Regional Field Office 10 (DA-10) welcomed the support of major cooperatives in Northern Mindanao to strengthen public-private partnership in mobilizing agricultural programs in the region.

In a round table meeting, Thursday, March 20, DA-10 Regional Executive Director Jose Apollo Y. Pacamalan bared the DA-10’s priority programs, activities, and projects (PAPs) to the region’s leading cooperatives to forge possible collaborative agricultural undertakings with the DA-10.

As part of the effort to re-invent agricultural program implementation in the region, RED Pacamalan stressed that partnership with established cooperatives as off-takers of the DA’s big-ticket projects will significantly impact the projects’ operationalization and sustainability.

The DA-10’s partnership with big cooperatives, will pave ways for the latter to support and assist smaller farmers’ cooperatives, thus enabling the DA to reach out to more farmers in the region.

In said meeting, the agri chief exec pointed out potential partnership for the production, processing and marketing of agricultural commodities such as coconut, coffee, cassava, swine, upland vegetables and corn.

The DA-10 is also open to partnership proposals from the cooperatives for other agricultural commodities supported by the DA’s banner programs and special projects.

The round table meeting was also attended by DA-10 Regional Technical Director for Operations Carlota S. Madriaga, chief of the different DA-RFO 10 divisions and management representatives of Bayanihan Millenium MPC, Northern Mindanao Federation of Dairy Cooperatives, PITAC MPC, Oro Integrated Cooperative, MASS-SPECC, Mindanao Consolidated Cooperative Bank, Oro Savings and Sharing MPC and Sta. Ana Multipurpose Cooperative.# (ATT)