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Saturday, September 9, 2017
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ILOILO City – The City Agriculturist’s Office distributed 1,000 heads of native chicken to 200 recipients composed of Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) beneficiaries and farmers from Jaro district.
They were the fourth batch where each recipient was given five native chickens.
“Aside from the native chickens, they will also receive fertilizers and water receptors which they can use in their ongoing vegetable production,” said City Agriculturist Romulo Pangantihon.
City hall earlier gave 1,875 native chickens to 375 recipients from Mandurriao, Molo, and La Paz districts.
The initiative is part of the city government’s Integrated Food Production program (livestock component) funded under the Bottom-up-Budgeting (BUB) program of the National Anti-Poverty Commission (NAPC).
Teresita Rizalde, 56, of Barangay Bito-on, Jaro said it would be a challenge for the beneficiaries like her to raise well the native chickens and have them reproduce.
“I will buy feeds and make sure that these chickens will not be dehydrated or else they will die,” said Rizalde who is a farmer.
Meanwhile, the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) Region 6, through CAO also gave one set of weighing scales, fish bucket (banyera) and storage to 50 vendors from Iloilo Terminal Market or “Super” and Iloilo Fishing Port.
“These gears given to our fish vendors are part of the food safety program of BFAR in which part of the post-harvest handling involves the transfer of products during vending process. During this stage, it requires proper handling, icing or storage in order to make sure that the fish being sold to our consumers are in good state,” said Pangantihon.
“These are all helpful for us because most of the vendors at Super are borrowing weighing scales and fish buckets from our fellows. At least now, we have our own equipment to be used for proper storage,” said Emmanuel Panongon, president of the fish vendors’ association at the Iloilo Terminal Market. (Iloilo City PIO/PN)
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