Four agrarian reform beneficiaries’ organizations in Negros Occidental have been identified as priority cooperatives for the Agrarian Reform Community Connectivity and Economic Support Services program of the Department of Agrarian Reform, Gloria Cañonero, senior agrarian reform technologist, said yesterday.

The cooperatives are the Occidental Negros Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries Planters Association and Minaba ARB-MPC in Kabankalan City and General Malvar ARB-Multipurpose Cooperative and Kauswaga ARB-MPC in Pontevedra town, Cañonero said.

She said ARCCESS, a DAR funded project, will help farmers’ cooperatives and organizations have stable income and, aid the growers to become entrepreneurs.

The program will provide pre-and-post harvest facilities to the beneficiaries and other technologies they will need to improve their operations and farming techniques, she said.

Cañonero also said the project is in partnership with the Northern Negros State College of Science and Technology-Sagay.

NONESCOST will conduct needs analysis and design assessment of the projects proposed by the ARB organizations, she said.

ARCCESS is one of the support services of DAR that aims to assist ARBs and their cooperatives improve their livelihood, adding that the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program does not stop at land distribution and acquisition, Cañonero said. *LTG

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