BACOLOD CITY — The PHP48.443-million farm-to-market road project in Pontevedra, Negros Occidental implemented under the Department of Agriculture-Philippine Rural Development Project (DA-PRDP) was inaugurated on Friday.
The unveiling rite was led by Governor Alfredo Marañon Jr., DA 6 (Western Visayas) Executive Director Remelyn Recoter, Mayor Jose Benito Alonso, and 4th District Board Member Jose Maria Alonso.
The 3.3-km. road, which spans communities from Barangay Gomez to Barangay Zamora in the southern Negros town, was completed last June and will benefit 435 households.
Recoter said in a statement that Marañon has been an active partner of the DA in the implementation of the PRDP projects in Negros Occidental.
The governor is very optimistic of the projects that will benefit the community, she added.
Earlier this year, Recoter said Negros Occidental has been included in the top three local government units (LGUs) in the country, which had availed of the highest amount of projects under the PRDP.
The PRDP, jointly funded by the World Bank, the national government, and the participating LGUs, is a national project under the DA that aims to establish a modern, value chain-oriented, and climate-resilient agriculture and fisheries sector.
Through partnerships with the LGUs and the private sector, it provides key infrastructure, facilities, technology and information to raise incomes, productivity and competitiveness in targeted areas.
The funding of PRDP projects is under the counterpart scheme. For infrastructure projects, World Bank’s counterpart is 80 percent with 10 percent each for DA and recipient-LGU.
For enterprise-related projects, the counterpart scheme is 60-20-20, with World Bank still shouldering the biggest bulk of the funding. (Nanette Guadalquiver/PNA)
