The Department of Agrarian Reform and the Negros Oriental State University will sign a memorandum of agreement on Agrarian Reform Community Connectivity and Economic Support Services partnership at 1:30 p.m. today, at the NORSU main campus office.

Stephen Leonidas, Provincial Agrarian Reform Officer II, said, Jeffrey Pacturan, DAR Undersecretary for Support Services, will attend the activity that aims to transform agrarian reform beneficiaries into viable entrepreneurs by providing them support services to increase their net income and farming capabilities.

He added that the inter-sectoral partnering initiative has two major components and is implemented with the Commission on Higher Education, Department of Science and Technology, and the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority.

The first is the delivery, by private organizations and academic institutions, of shared common services to ARB organizations to organize and develop them into viable and sustainable agri-enterprises.

The second is the provision, by the DAR to the organized agri-enterprises, of shared common facilities like farm implements and other production and processing equipment and machineries, Leonidas added.

NORSU will be in charge of providing agricultural and agribusiness instruction, research and extension activities to the ARBs and other target-beneficiaries in Negros Oriental, he added.*

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