Three (3) more irrigators’ associations (IAs) receive their payout from the cash-for-work program of the provincial government, implemented through the Office of the Provincial Agriculturist (OPA).
Gov. Arthur Yap personally distributed the payout to the said IA’s on Thursday, June 25, 2020.
According to a Capitol report, 112 members of Cawasan Communal Irrigation System (CIS) in barangay San Isidro, Trinidad, received their payout from the cash-for-work program.
In the same report, the 100 members of SARISA CIS based in barangay San Roque, Talibon, received their payout under the said program.
Furthermore, the 15 members of the San Miguel CIS based in barangay San Jose, San Miguel town also received their payout from the provincial government’s program.
Cawasan CIS has an irrigation canal that spans 2.5 kilometers, serving 115 hectares of rice fields, the Capitol report said.
Additionally, the Capitol report bared, the irrigation canal of SARISA CIS spans 4.2 kilometers, serving 120 hectares of rice fields.
The 0.2 kilometer canal of San Miguel CIS is serving 20 hectares of rice fields, the same report mentioned.
Under the cash-for-work program, the farmers do the clearing and grubbing along irrigation canals, restoring canal embankment, back-filing and shaping up the canal section, brushing the main and lateral canals, and desiltation or removing of silt from canal waterways, the Capitol report explained.