PIA Press Release Sunday, January 01, 2012 Farm implements distributed to San Juan farmersby Maritess B. BeñasSAN JUAN, Abra, Jan. 1(PIA)-- The annual town fiesta celebration of the municipality of San Juan was made even more meaningful this year with the distribution of farm tools and implements to the farmers last December 27. The Department of Agriculture – Cordillera Administrative Region Field Unit (DA-CARFU) provided two units of hand tractors and two units of drum seeders for palay crop cultivation. San Juan Mayor Bautista also gave one unit of hand tractor, one water pump, and five units of sprayers. Governor Eustaquio P. Bersamin, through the Office of the Provincial Agriculturist also provided five rolls of water hose. Bautista thanked the Governor and Provincial Agriculturist Jesus Villamor, Jr. for their preferential attention to the needs of the farmers in San Juan by recommending their requests for farm tools to the Philippine Mechanization Unit of the DA. (JDP/MTBB-PIA CAR,Abra) |