1,000 Pangasinense Farmers Benefit Anew from Corporate Farming Program

 

LINGAYEN, Pangasinan—Some 1,000 members of different farmer cooperatives and associations from six congressional districts will serve as beneficiaries of the Provincial Corporate Farming Program (PCF) of the Provincial Government of Pangasinan (PGP) for the current dry cropping season.

In line with this, PCF production field day, mass graduation, and presentation of technology demonstration results are slated for five scheduled dates in March 2024 in different venues as follows: (March 8)—Districts 1 and II, Brgy. Calzada, Mabini, Pangasinan; (March 6)—District III, Brgy. Bued, Calasiao, and (March 11) Brgy. Tuliao, Sta. Barbara (March 5): District IV, Brgy. Angio, San Fabian; (March 14): Districts V and VI, Brgy. Dupac, Asingan.

Provincial Agriculturist Dalisay Moya said the scheduled farming field day, mass graduation, and presentation of technology demonstration results by participating program partners will serve as an opportunity for them to showcase their outputs in conducting alternative technology and farming systems.

Corporate Farming is the flagship program of the present administration for the agri-fishery sector through the leadership of Governor Ramon V. Guico III. This aligns with the province’s strategic objective to uplift the socio-economic status and well-being of every Pangasinense.

Major projects under the program are rice production, corn production, high-value crop production, and fishery production. It aims to enhance food production and transform farming into a lucrative and sustainable economic enterprise through the so-called convergence approach among farmer cooperatives and associations (FCAs), local government units (LGUs), the Department of Agriculture and its attached agencies, different national government entities, the private sector, and financial institutions.

The PCF program is implemented not only to enhance food production but also as a support to the national government’s food sufficiency thrust under the Masagana Program for Agriculture. (Ruby R. Bernardino/Pangasinan Information and Media Relations Office)