Programang Agraryo Iskolar

The scholarship program of the DAR started in 2003 under the President Diosdado Macapagal Agrarian Scholarship Program (PDMASP). It aims to help dependents attain education to be able to help their parent-beneficiaries improve their standard of living.

A total of 44 grantees from 2003 to 2010, who are dependents of agrarian reform beneficiaries, stood to benefit from a monthly stipend, book allowance, and tuition fee of P1,000, 500, and 2,000 respectively. Thirty-eight of these scholars saw through graduation from various courses such as bachelor in agriculture, science, marine transportation, education, arts, and nursing.

Now renamed into Programang Agraryong Iskolar, the current batch (fifth) has in its fold 16 grantees due to graduate in 2014.

Below are some of the 38 successful grantees under the scholarship program of the DAR. (Please click on pictures to enlarge.)

TARBIDC

Name of ARC : Tumahubong Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries
Integrated Development Cooperative
Barangay Covered : Tumahubong
Location : Sumisip
ARC Population : 2,212
Average Household Income : P99,000/annum
Organization : TARBIDC
No. of Identified ARBs : 316
No. of Members : 302
Registered with : Cooperative Development Authority
Date/Year Registered : December 1990
Total Capital Build-Up : P10,724,890.00
Total Assets : P7,267,542.95
Total Liabilities : P17,950,748.00
Land Area Awarded : 1,017.1524 has.
Land Valuation : P40,479,521.01
Land Tenure Arrangement : Collective ownership
Land Use : Rubber- 968.0000 has.
Durian – 5.000 has.
Industrial/residential – 50 has.
Principal Products : Rubber
Economic Activities : Production and processing of rubber, operation of consumers’ store

Historical Background :

Siltown Realty, Inc. and other registered landowners comprising an area of 1,017 hectares formerly owned the property. Sime Darby Philippines, Inc., an international company engaged in the manufacture of rubber tires in the Philippines and Asia, developed and managed it.

When the CARP Law unfolded its force, the rubber plantation was voluntarily offered for sale to the government in 1989. In March 1990, Sime Darby stopped its operation in the plantation and the cooperative of agrarian reform beneficiaries took over its management.

Apart from its being a rubber plantation, the cooperative also undertakes other activities such as:


Tilapia-rearing on a one-hectare plot


Maintenance of rubber nursery


Vegetable gardening







TARBIDC Plantation Manager, Mr. Taha Katoh

General Assemblies in Different Cooperatives

The first quarter of the year normally sees through the general assemblies of different agrarian reform cooperatives in the province.

The following pictures show us around the activities of different ARCs.

Mangal Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries Development Cooperative (MARBEDCO)
Mangal, Sumisip


Election for the new set of board of directors




Election for chairmanship



Oath-taking of the new Board of Directors

Tumahubong Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries Integrated Development Cooperative (TARBIDC)
Tumahubong, Sumisip




Oath-taking of new set of Board of Directors

Sta. Clara Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries Integrated Development Cooperative, Inc. (SCARBIDCI)
Sta. Clara, Lamitan




The Chairman of the Board of Directors gives his annual report.