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TACLOBAN CITY – Congressional bet of Leyte’s First District Atty. Marin Ferdinand Romualdez said that with the district’s agricultural affluence, he will work for it to become the food basket capital of the province of Leyte.

This he said during a campaign sortie among farmers in the vast rice fields in Sta. Fe town recently.

“Sta. Fe is a potential growth area for high value crops. Its vast rice fields are already a proof that it can be the province’s rice granary. But not only the town of Sta. Fe but the whole First District as the vast lands can be cultivated, developed into a prominent agricultural center to yield rice, fruits and vegetable produce,” Atty. Romualdez said.

According to the lawyer-banker high value crops are the key. “If you grow and produce fruits, the next challenge would be processing; eventually, processing would open a lot of opportunities, job, and income.”

Farmers should face the new challenge on food production aspects that would be homegrown which they could depend on for their financial income.

This is also, according to Atty. Martin is part of the national challenge espoused by the national government on food security, food production and job generation under the Millennium Development Goals.

Sta. Fe town that sits on an 81.9 square kilometer land area and other towns in the fist district may be able to address this espousal of the national government.

Atty. Martin assures that he can make this national goal open with the support and cooperation of the small farmers in this town as well as in the district.

Atty. Martin was recently in a campaign sortie in Sta. Fe town, where he shortly joined farmers in harvesting rice in Brgy. Gutay.

He subsequently conducted a consultation with the farmers regarding their agricultural needs and how these could be addressed when elected as congressional representative of the first district of Leyte.