CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (PIA)–A team from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) Technical Assistance Project paid a courtesy visit to Department of Agriculture (DA)-10 Regional Executive Director, Carlene C. Collado, for a table discussion on the possible scaling up of the agribusiness value chain of DA-NorMin’s Adaptation and Mitigation Initiative in Agriculture (AMIA) Village in the province of Bukidnon on November 7, here.
The Department of Agriculture’s Adaptation and Mitigation Initiative in Agriculture (AMIA) Program helps communities that depend on farming and fishing to be more resistant to climate change. It does this by giving them access to credit and insurance, as well as market connections and site-specific climate information and decision-making.
The ADB has identified the DA’s AMIA villages among its priority localities for the institutionalization of climate-resilient agriculture (CRA) through its Technical Assistance Project.
Together with DA-NorMin AMIA Program Focal Person Carmelito Lapoot, ADB’s Value Chain Expert David Moles, and Eleanore Lantican, they visited AMIA Village in barangay Lingion, Manolo Fortich, Bukidnon, to survey the village’s condition and the viability of agricultural enterprises in the area.
The experts will endorse appropriate recommendations based on the survey for potential intervention under the ADB Technical Assistance Project to enhance the agricultural potential of the AMIA Village.
Director Collado and Joel S. Rudinas, Executive Assistant for Operations and Planning at DA-NorMin, told the ADB experts about the future of foreign and local-funded DA programs in the region at a meeting after the survey. They talked about projects like building post-harvest facilities and strategic programs for youth and Indigenous People (IP).
Partnership, consolidation and clustering, and technology-based agriculture are among the subjects underscored in the meeting as possible groundwork for collaborative and inclusive agricultural development.
The DA-NorMin has established and supported the Lingion AMIA Village for a total of four years.
The village is one of the four AMIA villages in Bukidnon that are actively engaged in the cassava and corn enterprises. (DA-10/PIA-10)
The Asian Development Bank targets boosting assistance for DA-10’s AMIA Village. (DA-10)
