Irrigation project breaks ground in Kapangan, Benguet

June 2, 2021 - 10:12am

NIA-CAR Regional Manager, Engr. Benito T. Espique Jr., leads the laying of the time capsule for the Pinaljok Communal Irrigation Project (CIP) together with Kapangan Acting Mayor Mayo Eslay (Vice-Mayor), Ms. Virginia Aycud, Provincial Agrarian Reform Program Officer (PARPO) of DAR-Benguet, representatives from the provincial government of Benguet, municipal councilors and farmer-beneficiaries during its groundbreaking ceremony on May 26, 2021.

Kapangan, Benguet — Twenty-one irrigator-farmers... read more

Government agencies in the Cordillera pledge commitment to EPAHP

June 2, 2021 - 11:38am

Regional directors and representatives of government agencies in the Cordillera pose for the photo ops after the launching and signing of the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) of the Enhanced Partnership Against Hunger and Poverty (EPAHP) for CAR.
Eighteen government agencies in the Cordillera signed partnership to the Enhanced Partnership Against Hunger and Poverty (EPAHP) for Cordillera Administrative Region as launched today, April 7, at the NIA-CAR Farmers' Training Center, Wangal, La Trinidad, Benguet via face-to-face and virtual method.

Formed after the success of the Partnership Against Hunger and Poverty (PAHP) program of the... read more

Repair and maintenance activities in full blast at UCRIS

May 28, 2021 - 9:26am

Various repair and maintenance activities at the biggest irrigation system in CAR, Upper Chico River Irrigation System in Tabuk, Kalinga, are currently underway during the irrigation cut off to maintain the efficiency of water delivery.

Among these improvement activities include desilting of the main diversion canal which are full of more than 1.5-meter-thick silt.

According to Engr. Ferdinand Indammog, chief of the Operations Section of the NIA Kalinga Irrigation Office, desilting activities at the main canal are being conducted as early as five o’clock in the morning until about ten o’clock in the evening to be able to... read more

NIA installs irrigation pump in La Trinidad, Benguet

May 12, 2021 - 1:40pm

Irrigation water was able to reach the service area located at Sitio Obullan (above Km. 4) in Brgy. Pico, which is now being cultivated for high value crops such as cabbage and sayote.
La Trinidad, Benguet—Farmers of Sitio Obullan, Brgy. Pico of this town are now enjoying gardening with the availability of irrigation water brought about by the completion of Bayabas Pump Irrigation Project (PIP) this April.

The project has an area of five hectares with 15 farmer-beneficiaries. The irrigated area is currently being cultivated for cabbage while tie wires are already set up as trellis for newly planted sayote.
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NIA completes implementation of Laya West irrigation project

April 26, 2021 - 8:37am

View from the top of the irrigation facilities and service area of the Laya West Communal Irrigation Project Phase completed early this year 2021. The overall total service area of the project is 133 hectares.
The National Irrigation Administration through its Kalinga Irrigation Management Office (IMO) has completed implementation of the Laya West Communal Irrigation Project (CIP) and is currently being utilized by the farmers in Brgy. Laya West, Tabuk City, Kalinga.

With fund source from the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program-Irrigation Component (CARP-IC) of the Department of Agrarian Reform,... read more

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