“Dapat, ang ibang LGU at iba pang ahensiya ng gobyerno na may kinalaman sa mga magsasaka ay pumunta dito sa Isabela para makita kung ano ang ginagawa ng mga pinuno dito.”Ito ang naging pahayag ni Secretary Francis “Kiko” Pangilinan, Presidential Assistant for Food Security and Agricultural Modernization sa kanyang pagdalaw noong ika-26 ng Hulyo sa Regional Office ng NIA-MARIIS, sa lungsod ng Cauayan.

     Pinuri ng kalihim ang matinding suporta ng pamahalaang panlalawigan sa sektor ng agrikultura matapos talakayin ni Governor Faustino Dy III ang mga benepisyo ng programang Bojie-Rodito Opportunities (BRO) for Small Farmers, ang flagship project ng administrasyong Dy-Albano na naglalayong maitaas ang antas ng pamumuhay ng mga maliliit na magsasaka.

     “Napakaganda ng ginagawa para sa mga magsasaka dito sa Isabela,” aniya.

     PDRRMO Isabela’s top-of-the-line state-of-the-art vehicles, equipments and gadgets took center stage once again at the Summit dubbed “Iba na ang Panahon: Science for Safer Communities” conducted by the Department of Science and Technology in collaboration with the Department of the Interior and Local Government and the Office of Civil Defense.

     Some 250 delegates from LGUs in the Cagayan Valley region and representatives of the academe converged at the Pulsar Hotel in Tuguegarao City for the two-day summit graced by eminent scientists and experts led by Dr. Renato Solidum of PHIVOLCS and Dir. Landrico Dalida, Jr. of PAGASA. Secretary Manuel Mamba, Presidential Legislative Liaison was keynote speaker.

     The summit was aimed at providing awareness on new technologies and mitigation measures on the occurrence of natural calamities and disasters as well as timely information in the use of science- based technologies and gadgets to prevent or minimize the loss of lives. 

     Isabela continues to blaze the trail in disaster preparedness.

     Five typhoon-proof evacuation centers worth one hundred seven million pesos are set to rise in the country’s second largest province – one in each of the four coastal municipalities worth twenty million pesos each and another in the Isabela Provincial Capitol compound. The provincial government will invest at least ninety million pesos in these projects designed to further strengthen and intensify disaster preparedness in the province.

     This development was announced by Governor Faustino Dy III during the ground breaking ceremonies of the twenty-seven million peso Multi-Purpose Evacuation Center in the capitol compound, a priority project of the provincial government in partnership with DSWD RO2 which extended a ten million peso grant and DILG RO2 which provided seven million pesos in performance challenge fund.

     Once completed, the project is touted to be the first ever PLGU constructed evacuation center in the country.