Through the Partnership Against Hunger and Poverty program, DAR Undersecretary Emily Padilla said last Thursday their goal is to connect 5,228 ARBs or agrarian reform beneficiaries’ organizations with an institutional buyer.
PHAP aims to sustainably reduce poverty and hunger nationwide. It is a convergence of services by DAR, Department of Agriculture, Department of Social Welfare and Development, Department of Interior and Local Government, and other participating government agencies. She said the current PHAP program will be improved into an enhanced PHAP strategy to help more farmer-beneficiaries.
“We can achieve this by providing our farmers with support services packages as soon as they receive the lands awarded to them,” she said.
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