Sultan Kudarat receives RCEF machines

Four farmers’ cooperatives and associations (FCAs) in Sultan Kudarat are set to receive Php16.9 million worth of postharvest facilities from the RCEF Mechanization Program, awarded during the 25th Kalimudan Festival held at the Capitol Ground, Isulan, Sultan Kudarat, on November 18, 2023.

The postharvest facilities include one unit of single pass rice mill and four units of 6-ton recirculating dryer awarded to the Alip-Lumaga Communal Irrigators Association, Sultan Kudarat Seed Growers Marketing Cooperative, Bacbacan Multipurpose Cooperative, and Lebak Sustainable Organic Multipurpose Cooperative.

The event was spearheaded by the incumbent Sultan Kudarat Governor Datu Pax Ali Mangudadatu and the Sangguniang Panlalawigan; along with DA RFO XII OIC Regional Executive Director John B. Pascual; Communication Chair on Agriculture Alfonso Demasuay; and PHilMech FMFOD Mindanao B OIC Cluster Head Franklin Gomez.

Also, it was graced by the key officials of the National Food Authority, National Irrigation Administration, Philippine Coconut Authority, Philippine Crop Insurance Corporation, Bureau of Plant Industry, and the municipal agriculture offices in the province.

To date, the province has received a total of Php33.8 million worth 25 units of production and postharvest technologies benefitting the 23 qualified FCAs.

FB, DA-PHilMech, November 23, 2023