DA-NIA to fast-track P11.2-B Jalaur Irrigation Project

Senator Franklin M. Drilon (left) shows area on a map where the Department of Agriculture through the National Irrigation Administration (DA-NIA) will construct several dams and other infrastructure to form part of the P11.2-billion Jalaur River Multipurpose Irrigation Project (JRMP phase 2).

Drilon urged Agriculture Secretary Proceso J. Alcala (middle) and NIA Administrator Antonio Nangel to fast-track the construction and completion of the JRMP2, funded under South Korea's official development assistance through its Export-Import Bank’s Economic Cooperation Fund. Construction is scheduled to commence in the second half of 2013. JRMP2 is the first large-scale multi-purpose irrigation project in the Visayas that will also provide electric power and potable water and irrigate 32,000 hectares of farmlands in Iloilo. (Photo by Alan Jay Jacalan, DA Information Service)