MANKAYAN, Benguet– The municipal government lauded the voluntary efforts of kind-hearted vegetable farmers from barangay Balili for donating their vegetable produce to residents in other areas of the municipality who were heavily impacted by the implementation of the community quarantine.
Mayor Frenzel A. Ayong said the decision of vegetable farmers to donate their produce to residents who still need relief assistance is highly commendable and worthy of emulation because instead of bringing their supply to the trading centers and incur additional expenses without gaining something in return, they voluntarily donated the same to people who are in need.
“We did not compel our farmers to donate their produce that had been affected by the very cheap buying prices at the different trading centers. We commend our vegetable farmers because they did not leave their produce to rot in their farms but saw to it that these will be given to residents who are still in need,” Mayor Ayong stressed.
Earlier, vegetable farmers from Balili donated to the municipal government several tons of cabbage they were not able to deliver to the different trading centers because of the very low buying prices of agricultural crops and the same were eventually distributed as part of the relief assistance to residents of Marivic and Upper Sapid.
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He underscored the municipal government value the voluntarism of these vegetable farmers for their donation to people who are still in need basic food requirements while looking for possible opportunities to bounce back from the slump that is why efforts are being studied to at least return the compliment for their good deeds.
According to him, the voluntarism of the farmers from the vegetable-producing barangays in the municipality should inspire and motivate other similarly situated farmers in other municipalities to replicate the same by donating vegetables not brought to the trading centers for people in need of assistance from kind-hearted individuals.
Previously, Mayor Ayong disclosed that vegetable farmers from the different vegetable-producing barangays were also supplied assorted vegetables that were bought and subsequently distributed to the different local governments and groups that requested assistance from the municipality at the height of the implementation of the enhanced community quarantine.
The municipal mayor said that words are not enough to express the gratitude of the municipal officials to the vegetable farmers for their voluntarism in willfully donating their vegetable produce and these efforts will be given the appropriate recognition in due time.
Mankayan is both a mining and agricultural town located in northern Benguet where its upper barangays are part of the vegetable-producing areas in the province while the lower barangays are the mineral-rich communities.
By Hent
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