Exit Conference for the Mindanao Sustainable Agrarian and Agriculture Development Project

Exit Conference	Post Harvesting Facilit
Training on Business Enterprise Development and Management	Water Supply Facility

   On September 2nd, Ambassador Kazuhiko Koshikawa participated online in the exit conference of the Mindanao Sustainable Agrarian and Agriculture Development (MinSAAD) Project.  The ceremony held in General Santos City was also attended by Honorable Agrarian Reform Secretary John R. Castriciones, Mindanao Development Authority Undersecretary Janet Lopoz , and JICA Philippines Chief Representative Eigo Azukizawa also attended online.
 
   The MinSAAD Project is a six billion yen loan fund from the Government of Japan through the Japan International Cooperation Agency. It started implementation in 2012 and was completed in 2020. Through this project, farm-to-market roads, bridges, irrigation facilities, post harvest infrastructure, rural water supply and agricultural capacity building support benefitted more than 69,000 Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries (ARBS) in the targeted twelve settlement areas in Regions X, XI and XII. The targeted areas of this project are expected to be the model of small-scale farmers’ empowerment and sustainable development in the agricultural sector.