The Philippine Rural Development Project (PRDP) in the Cordillera region started work Thursday on a new road that connects certain isolated villages to the more urbanized centers of the province of Kalinga.
The project will directly connect the villages of Pinukpuk, Pakawit, and Bayaw to the national road that leads to the market center in Pinukpuk and Tabuk City.
Worth P256 million, the 12.5 kilometer farm-to-market road will also connect the communities to another national road heading toward Tuao, Cagayan.
“The project is under the Department of Agriculture (DA) – PRDP Scale-Up project, which is an internationally funded project in support of the goal to boost agricultural commodity production and eventually improve farmers’ lives,” said Danilo Daguio, Technical Director for Operations of DA-Cordillera and the head of the PRDP program in the region.
The road is expected to be completed by September of 2026.
Kalinga has implemented P1.40 billion worth of infrastructure subprojects and P21.30 million worth of enterprise subprojects since the PRDP began supporting coffee, banana, and heirloom rice, among other commodities, since 2014.
