By Mortz C. Ortigoza
According to one of the bigwigs (national, regional and provincial elective and appointive officials as seen on the top photo below) I conversed yesterday when I posed to him: WHO WILL BE THE NEXT SECRETARY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE (D.A)?
HE QUIPPED: SI MAR ROXAS
Aside from being affiliated with the Marcos family, FIRST LADY LIZA ARANETA-MARCOS is a relative of the Roxas family. Her father is the first cousin of Judith "Judy" Araneta-Roxas, the mother of politician Mar Roxas, which makes her and the former Interior Secretary second cousin.
I rubbed elbows yesterday with the who's and who of the politics of Region- 1 and its illustrious sons who are appointive officials of the provincial, regional and national government.
They were Department of Agrarian Reform Secretary Conrado Estrella III, Pangasinan Governor Ramon "Mon-Mon' Guico, III, Pangasinan 5th District Representative Ramon Guico, Jr., La Union 1st District Representative Francisco Paulo Ortega V, La Union 2nd District Rep. Dante Garcia, NIA Deputy Administrator for Administrative and Financial Sector of the National Irrigation Ralph Du, Pangasinan Police Director Col. Jeff Fanged, Bani Mayor Boying Palafox, former San Quintin Mayor Clark Tiu, Lingayen Vice Mayor Dexter Malicdem and other local officials from the Ilocos Region.
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They spearhead the distribution to ARBOs from Ilocos Sur, Ilocos Norte, La Union, and Pangasinan of farm machineries and equipment worth P42.487 million to more than 100 agrarian reform beneficiaries organizations (ARBOs) in Region 1 being held at the Provincial Training and Development Center II in Lingayen, Pangasinan.
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The distribution is under the Sustainable and Resilient Agrarian Reform Communities (SuRe ARCs) Project, which aims to provide farm mechanization projects to support farm-to-market produce, increase agricultural productivity, and boost income of agrarian reform beneficiaries.
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