Vice Concepcion Lim has urged the agricultural workers, including those in the livestock industry, to involve themselves in the policy-making process of the government.
This is essential to the thrust of the provincial administration which, according to Gov. Edgar Chatto, is one that is consultative and participatory.
Lim encouraged all the stakeholders in agriculture to suggest sound policies that they want to be legislated in the Sangguniang Panlalawigan.
The vice governor, herself the SP presiding officer, made this call during the Sandugo Livestock Festival at the compound of the Office of the Provincial Veterinarian (OPV) and Office of the Provincial Agriculture (OPA).
Lim graced the opening of the festival on Monday in lieu of the governor who was in Manila for the first State of the Nation Address of Pres. Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III.
She led, together with Department of Agriculture (DA) Regional Livestock Coordinator Joel Elumba, OPV head Dr. Stella Marie Lapiz, Board Member Abeleon Damalerio and other guests, in the launching of the Swine Breeder Restocking Program.
The festival was participated, too, by the municipal agricultural officers (MAOs), Barangay Livestock Aides (BALAs), and representatives from other agricultural sub-sectors.
The MAOs and BALAs who are now elected town officials were honored on the same occasion. Dead BALA workers were posthumously recognized thru their surviving wives.
Lim expressed the strong support of the provincial leadership to the livestock industry as she stressed the importance of agriculture as a backbone industry itself.
The second top official of the province acknowledged the dynamism of Lapiz and her OPV workforce in sustaining the “health of the livestock industry.”
To stress how close the agriculture sector to the heart of the capitol, the vice governor came to the point of citing the wisdom of the SP in tasking the young Board Member Damalerio to head the agriculture committee.
The presiding officer of the provincial legislature said they chose Damalerio because he has the age and energy to go and talk to the farmers right on the soils they plow.
Lim also encouraged the agricultural workers to report to her office any indifferent treatment from the SP staff. She assured to act with dispatch. (Leah/EDCom)
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