Nanay Baby to allot more funds to aggie

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    GUAGUA, Pamp. – Gov. Lilia "Baby” Pineda yesterday vowed to allot more funds for agriculture and stressed the need to use idle lands in the province to enhance greater productivity.

    Pineda said she will ask an additional P10 million for agriculture in the 2011 provincial budget, as her government pushed for food security to combat poverty

    Pineda bared her plan during the oath-taking rites of the new set of officers of the Provincial Agricultural and Fishery
    Council (PAFC) here attended by Second District Rep. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.

    In the same event, newly assigned Department of Agriculture (DA) Regional Director Jerry Baliang was introduced to PAFC and Pineda.

    Pineda said “it was good that new director of DA is from the Kalinga-Apayao area because we have plans to initiate agricultural development in upland areas.” Baliang was previously assigned as assistant regional director in the Cordillera Administrative Region and executive director of the National Meat Inspection Service.

    Pineda and Aetas based in Barangay Nabuclod, Floridablanca, along with Arroyo and officials of the National Commission on Indigenous People’s met yesterday to discuss their plans to use some 5,000 hectares of land in Nabuclod for vegetable farming.

    The Nabuclod area approximates the climate of Baguio and is found to be suitable to crops like sayote, potatoes, and cabbages.

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