The Department of Agriculture will construct a P45-million farm-to-market road (FMR) and a P5-million small water impounding project (SWIP) in Bgy. Ibabang Talim, Lucena City, to further prop up the productivity and incomes of Quezon farmers. Photo shows Agriculture Secretary Proceso J. Alcala (left) instructing Bureau of Soils and Water
Management (BSWM) Region 4-A engineer Ernesto Brampio to fast-track the SWIP, during a capsule-laying ceremony, February 27, 2013. Joining them are BSWM director Silvino Tejada (2nd from left), Barangay Ibabang Talim captain Rolando Ebreo (right), and DA Region 4-A director Vilma Dimaculangan (partly hidden). While in his home province, the DA chief also led the launch of the 'National Year of Rice' advocacy campaign, starting with a holy mass at St. Ferdinand Cathedral officiated by Bishop Emilio Marquez, and several farmers' forum in Lucena, Atimonan and Lopez, where he handed over and raffled off to farmers P2-7 million worth of hand tractors, knapsack sprayers, water pump engine sets, rice harvester-cutters, threshers, draft animals with implements, and Anglo Nubian breeder bucks. (Photo by Jose Lucas, DA Information Service)
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