31/07/2015
DavSur LGU allocates P400M for rice production program
The provincial government is allocating P400-million for its Rice Production Enhancement Program aimed at producing abundant supply of rice that is of high quality.
Governor Claude Bautista identified the municipalities of Magsaysay, Matanao, Bansalan and Digos City to be the areas as beneficiaries of the program since they are consistent mass producers of rice.
Bautista said the province is highly agricultural in nature with rice as its number one produce, that’s why, it is his long term plan to make Davao del Sur as the supplier of rice in other provinces.
Recently, Davao del Sur was named as the most competitive province in the entire country for 2015 because of “its improved infrastructure, economic dynamism and government efficiency.”
Sometime in March this year, the province was also among the recipients of Rice Achievers Award given by the Department of Agriculture.
Bautista, who is on his firm term as governor, said “politics had no role in the implementation of projects and programs under his administration but only good governance.”
This came even as he already declared that he is no longer interested to seek re-election in the upcoming national and local elections in 2016 since he is running for the same position in the newly-created Davao Occidental.
“This rice enhancement program is a long-term project and I hope that this will be realized before my term ends on June 30, 2016. I would like to emphasize then that this project will continue of the people of Davao del Sur will support the candidate I will be endorsing to replace me,” Bautista said.
He said he finds former Vice Governor lawyer Arsenio Latasa fitting to succeed him “because he has the heart and desire to serve the people of Davao del Sur.” (CDIO-Magsaysay/Anthony S. Allada)
DIGOS CITY, Davao del Sur, July 27 (PIA) – http://news.pia.gov.ph/article/view/1561437976066/davsur-lgu-allocates-p400m-for-rice-production-program
