DIPOLOG CITY, Zamboanga del Norte—The government is set to implement a P188.1-million farm-to-market road concreting project traversing six barangays in the nearby town of Tampilisan, this province.
Gov. Roberto Uy on Monday said 80 percent representing P150.6 million of the road concreting project covering 13.82 kilometers will be funded through a loan from the World Bank.
Provincial Planning and Development Office data showed the project will benefit 2,047 households consisting of 9,659 inhabitants.
The data further showed that 1,709 of the 2,047 families are farming households and the remaining 338 are non-farming households.
The completion of the project will benefit 7,557.98 hectares of agricultural lands, 3,313 hectares of which are identified as “road influence areas” while 1,741 hectares as “service areas.”
Uy said the provincial government will shoulder 10 percent (P18.8 million) of the project cost while Department of Agriculture through the Philippine Rural Development Project will also provide 10 percent as counterpart.
The PRDP is a national project under DA that provides key infrastructures and facilities aimed to improve household income, competitiveness and productivity of the target beneficiary-communities.
Uy said the project’s beneficiary-barangays are Poblacion, Farmington, Galingon, Balacbaan, Cabong and Tilubog.
Uy said groundbreaking is scheduled for the second week of February.
“The completion of the project would be a big help to farmers since this will ease the transport of their agricultural products to the market,” he said.
Tampilisan, which has 20 barangays, is a fourth class town in the third congressional district of this province with a population of 23,056 as of the 2010 census.
The main crops of Tampilisan is palay, corn and rubber.