Department of Agriculture Senior Undersecretary Domingo F. Panganiban and Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, and Agrarian Reform (MAFAR) Minister Mohammad Yacob signed on April 14 a Memorandum of Agreement for the implementation of the P72.8 million Coconut Farmers and Industry Development Plan (CFIDP) in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM).
The “Coconut-Based Coffee and/or Cacao Enterprise Development Project (C3EDP)” aims to support smallholder coconut farmers through intercropping with coffee and cacao, maximize use of coconut lands, increase the sufficiency of local coffee and cacao, develop community-based enterprises, and capacitate farmers to conserve and protect the natural resources. ### (photos by Adonis Buhayan, DA-AFID)
