Manila, April 9 -- The Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) has enhanced the productivity and income of agrarian reform beneficiaries (ARBs) by providing rice combine harvesters (RCH) to two ARB organizations, significantly improving their farming operations.

Funded through the DAR's Agrarian Reform Fund (ARF), the Farm Machinery and Equipment (FME) worth PHP3.55 million streamlines the harvesting process and allows ARBs to work faster and with less manual labor and reduce postharvest losses.

Rocky Aborro, chairperson of the Roxas Community Agrarian Reform Cooperative (RCARC) in Brgy. Roxas, expressed gratitude for the support that they received.

"We are very thankful to the DAR for this FME. It is a great help to our cooperative and to...