DAVAO CITY—General Santos City is setting its eyes on improving its major infrastructure, notably its seaports and airports, with equal focus also on its farm roads to ensure adequate food supply to this southern seaport of Mindanao.
The major spending in infrastructure and agriculture facilities would be taken from the 5th Soccsksargen Area Development Plan (ADP), the growth region where General Santos City belongs.
The regional name stands for South Cotabato, (North) Cotabato, Sultan Kudarat, Sarangani and General Santos City.
Mayor Ronnel Rivera said the national agencies that took part in the regional planning assured that they would be downloading more projects to his city next year and in 2016.
The Department of Agriculture, the implementer of the ADP, said it has allotted P303 million for the Soccsksargen Food Security Program (FSP) for next year, “which would include the development of three agriculture support facilities in General Santos, such as the AA Abattoir.
By 2016, the FSP would have another P489 million for the construction of 23 farm-to-market roads in the region, with aggregate length of 45.63 kilometers, and three rice and corn mills.”
Manuel Cayon