DPWH finishes 10 DA-funded projects in Mountain Province

By Pamela F. Dungala

BONTOC, Mountain Province – Ten infrastructure projects of the provincial district engineering office under the farm to market road development program have been finished and being utilized by farmers to transfer their products to markets while two others are still being constructed.

               

The projects are funded by the Department of Agriculture for calendar year 2011, said engineer Benedict F. Matib, construction chief of the provincial Department of Public Works and Highways.

               

In the report to the regional DPWH office, Matibsaid  thousands of farmers are expected to benefit when 12 FMR projects in six towns of the province are completed even as hundreds of jobs have been generated during implementation.

               

 “These projects were done expeditiously to take chance of the good weather during the preceding months which is also in support to Secretary Rogelio Singson’s commitment to fasttrack infrastructure projects within the department’s jurisdiction,” he said.

               

Meanwhile, millions worth of FMR projects under the same program and funded under CY 2012 DA fund are set to be implemented again by thr district engineering office in Barlig (Lias FMR), Paracelis (Wala-Bunot-Paracelis and Cassag-Makilo FMRs) and Tadian (Guinzadan-Cagubatan-Dacudac FMR),” OIC assistant district engineer Charles Sokoken said.

               

 “These projects will aide agricultural development of the identified beneficiaries and economic growth of these municipalities”, OIC district rngineer John Marquez said.

As it is, this road projects are ways of the Public Highways and the DA to aide in an efficient farming and trading system and in the alleviation of poverty.