CLARKFIELD, Pampanga, June 28 — The Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) in Central Luzon conducted the first virtual signing of marketing agreement with the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP) Region III, particularly for the provinces of Pampanga, Nueva Ecija, and Zambales to source out agricultural products from agrarian reform beneficiaries (ARBs) as regular food requirements for inmates in the region amid the Covid-19 pandemic, Friday, June 26.
CLARKFIELD, Pampanga, June 28 — The Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) in Central Luzon conducted the first virtual signing of marketing agreement with the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP) Region III, particularly for the provinces of Pampanga, Nueva Ecija, and Zambales to source out agricultural products from agrarian reform beneficiaries (ARBs) as regular food requirements for inmates in the region amid the Covid-19 pandemic, Friday, June 26.
The partnership is implemented under the governments Enhanced Partnership Against Hunger and Poverty Program (EPAHPP), where government institutions converge to support poor people in the countryside which also includes feeding programs for school and severely malnourished individuals and provision of community affordable meals for workers and laborers.
This is the very first virtual signing of marketing agreement, where the DAR enables our ARBs to provide the BJMP with a steady supply of food items, such as rice, vegetables, root crops, and other farm produce, while the farmers gain regular markets for their farm yields, said DAR Support Service Office (SSO) Undersecretary Emily Padilla.
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