Fighting rural poverty and initiating an inclusive agriculture and fisheries production program with a complete value chain cannot be done by remote control.
Yesterday during a ZOOM conference, the Management Committee of the Mindanao Development Authority (MinDA) supported my proposal to establish a Northern Mindanao Satellite Office in Dipolog City, the capital of Zamboanga del Norte.
The establishment of a satellite office in one of Mindanao’s poorest provinces comes as Zamboanga del Norte prepares to establish the first Kibbutz-type Rural Resettlement for returning urban dwellers under the “Balik Probinsya, Bagong Pag-asa” Program pushed by Senator Christopher Lawrence Go.
Zamboanga del Norte Governor Roberto Uy has offered an office building for the MinDA Satellite Office in the Provincial Agro-Industrial Center near Dipolog.
During the MANCOM meeting yesterday, MinDA will present to the Zamboanga del Norte local government a draft Memorandum of Agreement for a partnership aimed at turning one of the country’s poorest provinces into a progressive rural economy.
The partnership will involve the fielding of technical people from MinDA to assist Zamboanga del Norte in its development planning and actual groundwork.
This will literally bring MinDA workers right in the virtual battlefield to lead development and anti-poverty programs for Zamboanga del Norte.
(Photos show the MinDA team with officials of Zamboanga del Norte in the Provincial Agro-Industrial Center.)
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