OPA 2019 budget ensures food sufficiency

Ensuring the sufficiency of foods on the table among the Boholanos and the tourists is the main objective of every year’s target programs of the Office of the Provincial Agriculturist (OPA) in the province of Bohol.
This was explained by Assistant Provincial Agriculturist Larry M. Pamugas when he led the Year-End Assessment and 2019 Operational Plan Workshops of the six divisions of OPA last Thursday held at the Bohol Tropics Resort Club this city.
Dr. Pamugas appreciated very much the administration of Gov. Edgar M.Chatto who have been allocated big budget to the agriculture compared to the other previous leaders in the province.
For the next year, the Provincial Government of Bohol (PGBh) has budgeted the (OPA) in the tune of P28,050,000.
This amount has been allocated for the different programs of the OPA such as; rice, corn, High Value Commercial Development Program (HVCDP), Bahay Kubo FAITH HOPE, coconut, fishery, special project for barangays; hatchery at BISU, Candijay; fish bagsakan, organic agriculture.
World Food Day celebration, Sandugo Agri-Fair celebration, Suhid sa Malampusong Mag-uumang Bol-anon, Ubi Festival celebration, Nutrition and Barangay Nutrition Scholar Program including honorarium.
In the 2019 OPA budget, the rice program has allocated a big share to ensure that more interventions must be given to the Boholano farmers.
The chiefs of the six divisions of the OPA: Gertrudes Fuentes of the Crops and Productivity Division, Remedios Regacho (Fisheries Division), Marjoe Labonite of the Research and Agri-Support Services (RASS), Gemma Encabo (Administration Division), Evelyn Maligsa (Planning Division), and Rosanna G. Lamdagan in the Agribusiness Division had reported the 2018 accomplishments and the operational plan for 2019.
Pamugas urged the OPA employees to make it sure that the targets must be attainable.
He said that the opening of the Bohol Panglao International Airport would create a big challenge to the OPA and Boholano farmers to produce more agricultural products in the province to cater the needs of the increasing numbers of population due to the influx of tourists. (Atoy Cosap)

OPA YEAR-END ASSESSMENT AND 2019 OPERATIONAL PLAN. Assistant Provincial Agriculturist Larry M. Pamugas (right) leads the Year-End Assessment and 2019 Operational Plan of the Office of the Provincial Agriculturist (OPA) last Thursday at the Bohol Tropics Resorts Club this city of which he emphasizes that the main objective of the plans and programs is to ensure the sufficiency of foods of the Boholanos and the tourists on the table.