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GMA vows P130 M for Vizcaya mountain road

BAYOMBONG, Nueva Vizcaya – Indigenous residents from an upland village here can now travel anytime soon through a well-paved mountain highway.

This, after an initial P130 million was committed by the Arroyo administration for improvement of an upland road linking a major vegetable-producing town here to the rest of the province.
Rep. Carlos Padilla said the money would be utilized to improve the Bitnong-Belance road in Dupax del Norte town, which has been suffering from intermittent road closures due to its poor condition.

The project is a major farm-to-market road where much of the vegetable produce, like premium quality squash, broccoli, cabbage and bell peppers, green peas and cauliflower from the mountain areas in the eastern part of the province pass through.

“The improvement of the road will definitely accelerate the development of our mountain areas and surely boost the economy of the province, which is the vegetable bowl of the region,” said Gov. Luisa Lloren Cuaresma.

Padilla said the amount committed by the President would be included in next year’s General Appropriations Act.

President Arroyo, during her visit in Belance, told village folk and local officials she would see to it that the road going to their area would be concreted and completed by the end of her term. – CL