DAR Regional Director Alexis Arsenal congratulated the Department of Agrarian Reform in Aklan for its austere but meaningful commemoration of the 19th CARP anniversary in Aklan last June 12 at the Aklan State University. Director Arsenal reported that despite the obstacles hurdled by DAR Reg. 6 in implementing CARP at Negros Occidental, the program implementation in Panay island including Aklan remains successful. He also noted that CARP is a very difficult program but one among the noblest that address poverty reduction and aid in jobs generation in the countrysides.
Atty. Daniel Y. Martelino, the Provincial Agrarian Reform Officer- Aklan announced that for the last 19 years of CARP in Aklan, laudable physical infrastructure and other support services were brought to Aklan amounting to over 200 Million pesos in support services to the agrarian reform communities of Aklan. Atty. Martelino stressed the importance of the program to sustain rural development and spur economic growth in Aklan rural communities.
The same program last June 12 also gathered major CARP stakeholders in the province of Aklan. Certificates of Recognition were awarded to the three honor graduates (Cum Laude) of DAR –Aklan through the Pres. Diosdado Macapagal Agrarian Scholars Program. Certificate of Recognition was also given to the Agbalogo Multi-purpose Cooperative, Most Outstanding ARB organization in Aklan.
Meanwhile, the occasion also gave DAR-Aklan the chance to hold its Salamat-Paalam for the retirees and other honorees in the province. Gifts and tokens of appreciation were given to nine former members of the DAR-Aklan family. They include Atty. Carol Morales who will become a Municipal Trial Court Judge in Zamboanga del Sur, Hon. Soviet De la Cruz as Sangguniang Bayan member of Kalibo, Salvador Romano, Luzviminda Teodosio, Angeles Sodusta, Prudencio Inamac, Jerome Refol, Ma. Theresa Legaspi , and Ruth Sayawan who have retired from government service.
Forming part of the CARP month celebration is the turn over of projects worth P10.5 M in Malinao, Aklan. The Bulabod –Rosario Communal Irrigation System (P4.2 M) to serve 150 hectares of riceland in Malinao and the 2.42 km. farm-to-market road in Bulabod to Sugnod worth P6.3 M.
Finally Aklan’s observance of the 19th CARP celebration will culminate with a mangrove reforestation planting at Dumatad, Tangalan of the Bugna ARC in said municipality on June 29 to be participated in by DAR-Aklan employees.
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