Antipolo agriculture office distributes 100,000 tilapia fingerlings

By Carlo P. Gonzaga

Tuesday 10th of July 2012

ANTIPOLO CITY, Rizal, July 10 (PIA) -- The city agriculture office (CAO) has distributed tilapia fingerlings to 72 cooperators from different sitios in this city.

Aquaculturist Benjamin Nuñez of CAO said the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR)-4A provided the 100,000 fingerlings. Cooperators are members of farmers’ associations engaged in CAO’s backyard fishing programs.

The distribution was BFAR-4A Regional Director Esmeralda Paz-Manalang’s response to CAO’s request for fingerlings.

CAO officer-in-charge Violeta Suarez said the fingerlings disposal is in compliance with Mayor Nilo Leyble’s 9-Point Agenda on agricultural development.

“All the programs that would help the agriculture sector and animal industry will be pushed. That’s why our administration is giving its best efforts to grant all requests and needs of our constituents both in farming and animal raising,” said Suarez.

She added that more agriculture programs will reach people through the cooperation of the city government, provincial government, and private companies. (CPG-PIA4A/PIO-Antipolo)