(Photos by DA-8)
Tacloban City --- Three years after the Yolanda tragedy where infrastructures and facilities, including the DA-8’s experiment stations and facilities, were destroyed, the office is now prepping up for rehabilitation of these facilities under the Yolanda Rehabilitation and Reconstruction Program (YRRP) 2016.
A total of P173,883,078.56, was allocated to the DA-RFO 8 to restore the office and its experiment stations, namely: Abuyog Experiment Station, Babatngon Experiment Station, Salcedo Crops and Livestock Experiment Station, San Jorge Experiment Station, and San Miguel Experiment Station.
The bulk of the allocated fund for each station will be used in rehabbing its complex building and training halls, perimeter fences and gates, staff houses, irrigation systems, including the stations’ road networks that are deemed necessary because of the detriments it may cause especially during rainy season.
As of press time, said stations already started its rehabilitation work. Likewise, the office’s rehabilitation and improvement of its office building is now on the roll, as well as the Animal and Plant Quarantine Services Building and the office’s guesthouse. The total project cost reached P42, 871,467.49.
Meanwhile, the budget of the YRRP was not only divided and allocated for infrastructure rehabilitation, funds were also provided for procuring various farm inputs such as seeds and fertilizers, as well as machineries for corn and cassava, floating tillers, hand tractors, and UV films.
Just recently, a team composed of engineers, architects, and information staff from the DA-RFO8, have visited the said stations to conduct ocular inspections, pre-validations, and documentations of all the facilities under rehab. (DA-8)
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