Validations for SAP coco farmer beneficiaries fast track

The Philippine Coconut Authority (PCA) Bohol Provincial Office through its Coconut Development Officers
(CDOs) is fast-tracking to conduct the evaluation among Boholano coconut farmers to come up with the legitimate
beneficiaries of the Social Amelioration Program (SAP) worth P5,000 each from the Department of Agriculture
(DA) through the PCA.
Emiliano Romero, Bohol PCA Manager said that based on the random selection by the PCA National Head
Office from among the coconut farmers nationwide, there are about 346,000 coconut farmers to be the beneficiaries
of the program wherein 22,729 of these are for the Boholano coconut farmers.
Romero said that they have been asking the barangay officials to help the CDOs to expedite the evaluation
considering their very limited numbers of CDOs which have only 10 to cover the entire province as what they have
agreed during their zoom meeting with PCA Regional Director Brendan Trasmonte last Nov. 28, 2020. 
He bared that they only received the information regarding the program last November 15, 2020, and they have
given the deadline to submit the list of the legitimate beneficiaries on December 11, 2020.

QUALIFICATIONS

Romero disclosed that based on the given guidelines the beneficiaries of the program only those coconut
farmers who have not received SAP through the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD), not 4P’s
beneficiaries under Unconditional Cash Transfer (UCT), not government employees, not a member of the family of
elected officials and not belong to a well-off family.
He said that based on the trend of the ongoing evaluation only a few of the total numbers of the registered
Boholano coconut farmers are illegible to receive the SAP considering that most of them were already recipients of
the previous programs of the government.
Bohol has a total number of 174,781 coconut farmers comprising from 65,777 in the First District, 38,600 (2nd
District) and 70,404 for the 3rd District, he said.
Romero said that after the evaluation, the list of the illegible Boholano coconut farmers of the program would
be submitted to the PCA Regional Office on December 11, 2020, and then the regional office will submit it to PCA
National Office and finally to the DA wherein the money was being downloaded for the nationwide payout through
M Lhuillier.
Romero explained that actually of the P5,000, only P3,000 cash subsidy a beneficiary will be receiving because
the remaining amount will be in kind: rice worth P1,000, chicken meat (P600) and eggs (P400).
COCO FARMERS ONLINE REGISTRATION

PCA Senior Agriculturist Primo Galendez urged the Boholano Coconut farmers who have not registered
themselves to PCA to avail the online registration to National Coconut Farmers’ Registry System (NCFRS) through
the given link: bit.ly/magniniyogakosaregion7 
Galendez said the coco farmers must avail the online registration at the soonest possible time considering that
the deadline will be tomorrow for possible inclusion of the program. (AtoyCosap)
Validations for SAP coco farmer
beneficiaries fast track

SAP FOR COCO FARMERS. Philippine Coconut Authority (PCA) Provincial Manager Emil Romero (right) and
PCA Senior Agriculturist Primo Galendez are calling the Boholano coconut farmers who have not registered
themselves to PCA to avail the online registration for possible inclusion of the program. They are also urging
the farmers to plant early maturing coconut such seedlings are available at the PCA nursery in Ubay, Bohol.