MANILA – The Cabinet Committee of the National Economic and Development Authority has approved irrigation, flood control and education projects with a combined cost of P13.27 billion.

The NEDA-Cabcom approved the P7.05-billion Casecnan Multi-Purpose Irrigation and Power Project-Irrigation Component, Phase II; the P1.56-billion Umayam River Irrigation Project; and the P4.66-billion Integrated Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation Measures in Low-Lying Areas of Pampanga Bay Project.

The CMIPP-IC Phase II aims to continue providing full irrigation to 20,321 of the 37,200 hectares of new areas in the towns of Munoz, Guimba, Talugtog, Cuyapo in Nueva Ecija and Anao, Ramos and Victoria in Tarlac.

It also intends to stabilize the irrigation supply to the 40,000 hectares of existing areas of the Upper Pampanga River Integrated Irrigation System.

The first Phase, completed in December 2008, already benefited 16,879 hectares of new irrigation areas.

“This project is consistent with the objective of the Philippine Development Plan 2011 to 2016 to improve food security and increasing household income in the countryside through agricultural modernization,” Socioeconomic Planning Secretary Cayetano Paderanga said.*PNA

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