Saturday, February 5, 2011

...the Recto vision


Batangas focuses on agri development


The Philippine Star
February 06, 2011


MANILA, Philippines –  The enhancement of agriculture is at the top of the list of priorities in a comprehensive plan for the development of Batangas province. The plan was drawn up during an Executive Legislative Agenda Alliance Building (ELA) cum Provincial Development Plans meeting attended by representatives from various national government bureaus and local chief executives in Batangas recently.

The goal of the program is to organize teamwork and alliance among different government agencies to avoid overlapping and double programming.

Batangas Gov. Vilma Santos-Recto who was the progam convenor said the agricultural activities include the establishment of a one-stop trading post with post-harvest facilities, fish trading centers, provision for high-value crops, animal dispersal and dairy farm production and a campaign for the establishment of more cooperatives in the province.

Based on several international studies, cooperatives do improve the chances of its members to uplift their lives.

Also incorporated in the program is a housing development plan that will be equipped with a data banking system to easily determine government-owned lands that can be utilized for housing under the Community Land Acquisition Support Program (CLASP).

The provincial government is set to issue an order that will advise all city and municipal mayors to use the Community Based Monitoring Survey as basis for planning and solving the problem of poverty in their areas of jurisdiction.

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