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The Department of Agrarian Reform DAR held a two-day Virtual Learning Session on enhancing insurance coverage for agrarian reform beneficiaries ARBs to further improve its response on risk mitigation assistance to the farmer-beneficiaries who are part of the food supply chain of the country through the implementation of Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries-Agricultural Insurance Program ARB-AIP.The Virtual Learning Session held on August 12-13 thru Microsoft Team Application was attended by forty-three 43 DAR and the Philippine Crop Insurance Corp. PCIC officials and staff from its central and field offices.The PCIC is the DARs partner in the provision of insurance program dubbed as ARB-AIP which covers farmers crops damaged by diseases pest infestation and natural calamities such as typhoons floods drought tornado earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.Bureau of Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries Development OIC-Assistant Director Acmad Calaca said the goal of the learning sessions include the tracking down of the periodic accomplishments on the insurance coverage of ARBs nationwide. It also aims to firm-up targets for the year and in the next two years under President Rodrigo Dutertes Administration as well as discuss and resolve related issues and concerns including concerns on limited enrolment of ARBs in Registry System for Basic Sectors in Agriculture RSBSA that affect the free insurance coverage of the ARBs. Only ARBs listed under the RSBSA could avail of the insurance program. This learning session is also intended to help us overcome the challenges brought by the pandemic COVID-19 one of them is the difficulty in updating the list because of the restrictions in movement due to community quarantine Calaca said.Support Services Office SSO Undersecretary Emily Padilla said the team of DAR and PCIC are collectively working hard to ensure that 100 of the ARBs would be covered under ARB-AIP and enable them to access timely support interventions from other partner organizations. This program provides insurance protection to agricultural producers against loss of the crops on the account of natural calamities plant pests and disease and other perils. It is our duty and our mission to protect the economic lives of our program beneficiaries Padilla said.On the other hand SSO Asst. Secretary Milagros Isabel Cristobal told the participants that various good practices were shared and she hopes that they would integrate all the lessons they gained and apply them in their communities for the benefit of the ARBs.
