Sulu farmers get DA help to protect garden from wild boars

 By Rene V. Carbayas

 

ZAMBOANGA CITY, Oct 21 (PIA) – Sulu farmers will not have to worry on wild boars invading their products as the Department of Agriculture provided farm inputs to help protect their farm.

 

Eighty (80) rolls of barbwire were given to the Department of Agriculture-Special Area for Agricultural Development (DA–SAAD) farmer-beneficiaries in Omar last September 15, 2021.

 

“Now we don’t have to worry about wild boars eating our plant,” one beneficiary said.  While, another expressed, “we never thought that we will receive support from the government because of the distance of our place, but SAAD made it possible and we are very grateful for that.” 

Christopher Rey U. Sensibalo, a representative from the local government unit said that the project is a reassurance of the continuous support of the SAAD program to the farmers in Omar municipality.

“They received cassava stalks, fencing materials, and vegetables seeds for this project. Our local farmers here in Omar still use the old practices in farming and this has been a tradition in this part of Sulu,” Sensibalo said.

 

SAAD Area Coordinator Farhan K. Abdullah said 40 farmer-beneficiaries benefitted from the said farm support. He said that the barbwires were part of the farm inputs given by SAAD to the farmers and has a total value of Php 173,520.00.

 

“The MLGU and BLGU show their support to the SAAD Intervention, from the materials the farmers now have, especially the barbwires to protect their farms and crops. They are so happy now that they can now maximize their plantation and not worry about guarding their crops from wild animals,” he said.

 

To date, the farmers in Omar are preparing for the installation of the fence and plans to plant the cassava stalks soon as it is timely for the rainy season in Sulu. (EDT/RVC/PIA9 with reports from Shara Malaica Ussam/DA-RFO IX, SAAD)