Regional Director
FLORANTE O. LEAL and Provincial Director PETER O. MANGABAT of the Department of
Trade and Industry awarded a check amounting to One Million Four Hundred
Seventy Nine thousand pesos (Php 1,479,000.00) to the Local Government Unit of
Umingan. Said fund under the Grassroots Participatory Budgeting (BUB) 2014 will
be used for the project “Kakayahang Pangkabuhayan sa Umingan”. This is a Shared
Service Facility. This project is conceptualized due to: 1) the abundance of
squash as prime agricultural product of our so-called Marlboro country in the
hilly areas of the municipality; 2) as a support facility for the establishment
of One-Town-One-Product (OTOP); and 3) because of the trend on health and
wellness wherein people became conscious
on the nutritional value of the food they eat. The LGU saw the potential of the
project to create employment for women and to assist farmers market their
produce.
This Shared Service Facility will be housed at the
Umingan Livelihood and Training Center, which the LGU will construct at Brgy.
Lauren and will be used by United Farmers and Women’s Association of Umingan
(UFAWA) and other accredited CSO’s. They will make veggie noodle and
veggie-bread products.
This project aims to:
1.
Serve as venue for product development
of different agricultural products
2.
Serve as a training facility for
interested individuals to gain knowledge about food processing
3.
To improve standard of Umingan products
including our OTOP
4.
To spur livelihood activity among
unemployed women and out of school youth
5.
To augment household income through food
processing
6.
To supply nutritious foods for the
Supplemental Feeding Program of the LGU.
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