Olowan ok’s assistance to city farmers

By Gaby B. Keith

BAGUIO CITY -- Acting city mayor Faustino Olowan signed City Council Resolution 457-22 requesting the City Veterinary and Agriculture Office to plan and implement a marketing assistance program that will increase the marketing and entrepreneurial capacities of urban farmers and fisherfolk in this Summer Capital.
    This is through the provision of transportation services to allow them to bring their goods from farm to market and haul inputs from suppliers to their farms. "The farmers aired their concerns and appealed for interventions that will ease their production and postharvest activities such as the provision of vehicles or transportation services from their farms to the market. The mayor committed to looking for possible funding agencies for the procurement of vehicles to be utilized by performing farmer cooperatives and associations," the statement read. Relative to the concern, the resolution stated the CVAO is currently procuring two units of freezer vans funded by the Department of Agriculture under the Kadiwa Cold Chain Project to modernize the food distribution system in traditional markets to ensure the availability of affordable and safe agricultural commodities to the consuming public.