THE DEPARTMENT of Agriculture has commended Zamboanga's Climaco administration and praised the local government for its strong collaboration in the implementation of the Kadiwa on Wheels or Mobile Market program in various barangays despite the Covid-19 pandemic.
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| Mayor Beng Climaco and other officials pose with DA representatives who handed over a check worth P3 million to the local government for its strong support to the Kadiwa on Wheels program. (Bong Serondo) |
Because of Mayor Beng Climaco’s strong support to the program, Agriculture Assistant Regional Director Ferdinand Gamorot handed over a check amounting to P3 million to the local government for the purchase of 2 trucks to further strengthen the Kadiwa on Wheels program and benefit both the locals and farmers and fishermen.
He also presented Climaco with a plaque of appreciation for the involvement and support of the local government through the City Agriculturist Office headed by Carmelita Sanchez, to various agricultural programs in Zamboanga. Climaco and Sanchez thanked the DA for the recognition.
Gamorot said the Kadiwa on Wheels program was able to market over P10 million worth of agricultural and fishery products. The program, he said, benefited local farmers through the sale of their produce at cheaper prices that directly benefited residents here.
“Over 50,000 local consumers were able to avail of affordable products from the Kadiwa mobile market in various barangays,” he said.
Last year, the Department of Labor and Employment also praised Climaco and the local government for taking an active participation in “Project HOPE” (Helping Others Prosper Economically) which sold various crops and products at the Kadiwa on Wheels program.
Project HOPE is a holistic intervention for the fishing and canning industry workers and their dependents displaced during the annual closed fishing season which included emergency employment, training, retooling and livelihood.
It focuses on eco-livelihood farming as an enrolled project under the “Trabaho Negosyo Kabuhayan” framework and provided beneficiaries with an alternative source of income through agricultural farming. (Zamboanga Post, Bong Serondo and Joni Sarina Mejico.)
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