The Land Bank of the Philippines-Bacolod granted a loan of P1,342,800 to the Association of San German Agrarian Reform Community of Brgy. Guimbalaon, Silay City, yesterday through the Agrarian Production Credit Program of the Department of Agrarian Reform.

Teodoro Che Salido, section chief of Sustainable Agri-based Rural Enterprise Development of DAR-North Negros Occidental, said the loan aims to help agrarian reform beneficiaries as production capital.

Salido said the APCP was created to prevent ARBs from leasing and selling their rights to private landowners. A lot of cases have been noted where ARBs lease their lands because they do not have production capital.

ANP holding market days

The Association of Negros Producers is inviting the public to its Market Day every first and third Wednesdays of the month from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the parking lot of the Negros Showroom-Lacson, its press release said.

The Market Day is a gathering of farmers’ groups practicing sustainable agriculture and herbs and ornamental plant growers, whose products are fresh and chemical free, it said.

The buying public are therefore assured that no chemicals have been used in growing the fresh produce, the press release also said.

DAR installs beneficiaries

The Department of Agrarian Reform-North of Negros Occidental recently installed 16 beneficiaries in land formerly owned by Luiggi Battistuzzi in Brgy. Tinampa-an, Cadiz City, provincial agrarian reform officer Teresita Mabunay, said yesterday.

The 13 hectares were acquired through the voluntary offer to sell scheme of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program with Certificate of Land Ownership Award Nos. 788, 789, 790, 791, 792, 801, 681, and 682, Mabunay said.

She also said there was no resistance from the landowner during the installation.