Manay Gina gives out 125 motorized irrigation pumps
FARMERS rejoiced at the start of the new term of office of their local officials when they received motorized irrigation pumps courtesy of Fourth District Rep. Gina de Venecia on Tuesday.
De Venecia distributed the 125 irrigation pumps through the newly elected town mayors of Mangaldan, San Jacinto, San Fabian and Manaoag.
Mayors Bona Fe de Vera Parayno received 50 irrigation pumps for Mangaldan; and Mayors Constante Agbayani of San Fabian, Robert de Vera of San Jacinto and Kim Amador of Manaoag received 25 each.
De Venecia said she allocated the irrigation pumps because she knows that farming remains the number one source of income of the people in her district.
The irrigation pumps came from the National Irrigation Administration (NIA) funded from De Venecia’s congressional allocation.
Wilfredo Millan, division manager of NIA in Pangasinan, said these will be used by farmers to irrigate their farms during the dry season when water is scanty.
De Venecia, on her second term of office, also announced that the construction of farm-to-market roads and drainage systems is continuing.
This will assure t the easy transport of products from the farms to the markets and at the same time boost the real estate value value of the lands in the district.
De Venecia stressed the importance of creating a strong middle class population to help propel development.
In the same occasion, she announced that in her second term of office, plantations and processing plants for malunggay (moringa olifiera) are set to be established in both San Jacinto and San Fabian.
With the help of the Department of Tourism, she will also seek to make Manaoag as the pilgrimage capital of the Philippines.
At the same time, she noted that a fish port will soon be established in Dagupan City following the approval by the House of Representatives and the Senate of a bill she sponsored.
She vowed to seek funding for the establishment of an Urgency Clinic proposed by Parayno for Mangaldan to give urgent medical attention to people suffering from stroke before they are transported to the nearest hospital in Dagupan.
“Since our town is quite a distance away from Dagupan, we need an urgency clinic where people who suffered stroke would be given initial medical attention and be saved,” said Parayno, who used to be an urgency clinic nurse in the United States.
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