BAGUIO
CITY -- The proposed P601 million Cordillera Highland Agricultural
Resources Management Project2 (CHARMP2) Scale-Up Project of the Dept. of
Agriculture- Cordillera Administrative Region was approved by the
Investment Coordinating Committee- Technical Board (ICC TB) after two
presentations last August 19 and Sept. 1.
The project proposal is now ready for
presentation to the ICC Cabinet committee on Sept. 19. ICC clearance
is needed for all major projects needing foreign funding support.
The project is expected to benefit
about 2,665 households spread over 18 barangays in the six provinces of
CAR. If approved by the ICC Cabinet Committee and the NEDA Board, it will be
implemented starting January 2017 with a two-year implementation period.
The 18 barangay beneficiaries which
are among the poorest and hard-to-reach barangays in the region are as
follows: Nalbuan in Licuan-Baay; Nagbuquel in LUba; Bayabas in Malibcong
in the province of Abra; Ferdinand in Calanasan, Calafug in Conner and
Lucab in Kabugao in Apayao; Bagu in Bakun. Pongayan in Kapangan and Pappa
in Sablan in Benguet; Anao in Hingyon, Abatan in Hungduan and Gumhang in Tinoc
in Ifugao; Taloctoc in Tanudan, Bugnay in Tinglayan, and Balinciagao Sur
in Pasil in Kalinga; and Bagnen Oriente in Bauko, Balugan in Sagada, and
Dacudac in Tadian in Mountain Province.
The project has four main components:
social mobilization and participatory investment planning; agro forestry,
agriculture, agri business and income generating activities and rural
infrastructure development.
Agroforestry and watershed management,
and project management components account for 9 percent of the total project
cost while the components on Social Mobilization, Participatory Investment
Planning, and Agriculture, Agri-business and Income Generating Activities
account for 8% each of the total project funds. The RID has the largest
share at 64% or about P386 M.
The RID project outputs include the
rehabilitation / improvement of about 86 kilometers of farm to market roads,
40,450 lineal meters of foot path, 625 lineal meters of foot bridge, 482
hectares of communal irrigation system plus the construction of 30 community
infrastructures (domestic water supply system, tramlines, warehouse, solar
dryer, greenhouse).
On the other hand, the agribusiness and
income generating activities will provide seed fund to farmers to support
various commodities of the farmers.
The watershed components will involve the
establishment of agroforestry plots in the barangays.
During
the ICC technical board deliberation, NEDA deputy director general Rolando
Tungpalan cited need for DA to show complementation of the CHARMP2 Scale-Up
Project with the Philippine Rural Development Project, a nationwide
project of DA and the Integrated Natural Resources Environmental
Management Project (INREMP) being implemented by DENR in the Upper Chico River
Basin of CAR. He likewise directed DA to show the impact of the previous
CHARMP projects.
The first CHARMP project had 82 barangay
beneficiaries implemented from 1997 to 2004, while CHARMP2, which had 170
barangay beneficiaries, was implemented from 2009-2016.
With
18 barangay beneficiaries, the proposed CHARMP2 Scaling- Up project is
expected to replicate the good practices of the previous
CHARMP projects, but this time spreading the benefits to other poorer,
hard-to-reach areas in CAR.
The Cordillera Regional Development
Council endorsed the proposed scaling-up project to the ICC.
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