The Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) and the Philippine Crop Insurance Corporation have awarded indemnity checks to 35 Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries who were insured under the DAR-PCIC Agricultural Insurance Program (AIP) in Bayawan City and Sta. Catalina, Negros Oriental.
The program is a partnership development project of DAR and PCIC that provides premium subsidy for agricultural insurance to ARBs and ARB household members. It aims to protect them against losses due to pest and disease infestations, natural calamities, and extreme weather events brought by climate change, said Gherelene Mae Rafols, Provincial Information Officer of the DAR in Negros Oriental.
A total of PHP 239,842 was released by the PCIC to agrarian farmers whose crops (rice and corn) were damaged by the flood in Bayawan City and Sta. Catalina last October 2013. Claimants of the indemnity checks are members of DAR assisted cooperatives who qualified and availed of the AIP. Claims for damages of livestock and high valued crops are yet for approval and releasing, Rafols said in a media release Tuesday.
Provincial Agrarian Reform Program Officer Atty. Louie L Naranjo, led the distribution of checks late last week and was assisted by Chief, Program Beneficiaries Development Division Grace F. Mapili, Bayawan City Mayor German P. Sarana, Jr., PCIC Chief Adjuster Rene Ardena , Evelyn Jandog from the Provincial Agriculturist Office, PARCCOM Representatives Virginia Espante of NCIP, Regino Guad of Agricultural Coops, Dionisio Valor of the Indigenous People Group and staff from the DAR provincial and municipal Offices. (PNA/JFP)
