BAMBANG, Nueva Vizcaya—The Department of Agriculture in Cagayan Valley recently turned over an irrigation project to boost agricultural production of farmers in this town.
Engineer Avelino Moreno of the DA regional office, Governor Carlos Padilla, Mayor Flaviano Balgos and former Governor Ruth Padilla handed over the P20-million Small Water Impounding Project (SWIP) to the West Dullao Farmers Association Incorporated in barangay Dullao here.
Padilla said the SWIP was requested to the DA in 2015 when he was still a congressman of the province.
Moreno said the SWIP will benefit more than 85 farmers of Dullao, including adjacent barangays of San Antonio South and San Antonio North.
The SWIP can provide irrigation water to more than 100 hectares of farmland, he added.
“This is one the department’s intervention to ensure rice sufficiency since most of the farmers in the area are relying on rain fed water to irrigate their farmlands,” Moreno added.
Officials of the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources also said that the SWIP provides livelihood among the WDFAI members.
They said fish cages and Tilapia fingerlings have been given recently by the bureau to provide additional source of livelihood for the farmers.
