Agrarian reform beneficiaries organizations (ARBOs) in Eastern Visayas have earned P22.93 million in just a month of selling their agricultural products in areas critically affected by the coronavirus outbreak in the region.
Agrarian reform beneficiaries organizations (ARBOs) in Eastern Visayas have earned P22.93 million in just a month of selling their agricultural products in areas critically affected by the coronavirus outbreak in the region.
Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) Regional Director Stephen Leonidas said the 104 ARBOs started selling their harvests in the last week of March. Thirty-three of the ARBOs are from Leyte, 21 from Eastern Samar, 20 from Samar, 15 from Northern Samar, eight from Southern Leyte, and seven from Biliran.
Allowing individual and organized farmer-beneficiaries to market their harvest during this crisis enables them to fend for themselves, make them less of a burden to the government, continue farming and keep food flowing, Leonidas said
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