From The DA Secretary

Two Pilot Areas

EASY ACCESS LOANS LAUNCHED

IN SURIGAO NORTE, NUEVA ECIJA

By Manny Piñol

Two towns in the country, one a poor fishing town in Surigao del Norte and the other a progressive farming municipality in Nueva Ecija, will serve as the pilot areas of the Production Loan Easy Access (PLEA) program of the Department of Agriculture and Fisheries.

Malimono, Surigao del Norte, a town with a poverty incidence of 90% confronted with problems of insurgency with the presence of the New People's Army (NPA), and Bongabon, Nueva Ecija, the acknowledged onion farming capital of the country where the mayor is a retired police general, have been chosen as the first two laboratories of an innovative loaning program aimed at increasing the productivity of farmers and fishermen and lifting them out of poverty.

The program will be implemented by the Agriculture Credit Police Council (ACPC), an agency which handles the loaning program of the DAF all over the country.

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