A partnership between the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) and Pilmico Foods Corporation (Pilmico), the integrated agribusiness and food company of Aboitiz Equity Ventures, Inc. (AEV), will attempt to save as many as 1,200 Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries (ARBs) from poverty.
To be specific, these ARBS, who are all women, will be given starter kits for bakery training, egg layering and poultry or broiler production, hog fattening, and other similar livestock rearing businesses through the newly signed memorandum of agreement (MOA) between Pilmico and DAR.
“Many economies are collapsing and the last frontier of [our] economy of course, is no other than agriculture. We go back to the basics: that our survival defense is on the producer of food, and these are the farmers,” said DAR Secretary John Castriciones.
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