By Lyn Y. Tallio
In accordance with the administration’s thrust to make affordable agricultural products more accessible to consumers , the Department of Agriculture (DA) yesterday announced it is eyeing to pilot-test a Kadiwa store mobile application before year end.
" We are planning to launch a Kadiwa app where ordering and buying will be much easier for our Kadiwa buyers," DA Assistant Secretary for Consumer Affairs and Legislative Affairs Genevieve Velicaria Guevarra said during Radyo Pilipinas’ Usapang Agrikultura program on Monday.
“Hopefully by the end of the year, we will have a pilot project where we will test, perhaps, first in the NCR,” she said.
Guevarra said the DA was currently working with the private sector for the technicalities and initial launching of the said app, and its nationwide launching once successfully piloted.
According to the DA official, there are almost two million households regularly buying from 472 Kadiwa stores nationwide.
These include 266 regular Kadiwa stores, 119 regular Kadiwa pop-up stores, 52 regular Kadiwa ng Pangulo (KNP) sites, 32 Kadiwa-on-wheels, and three Kadiwa centers.
There are also more than 1,400 farmer cooperatives and organizations currently linked to the Kadiwa stores.
Guevarra said the DA plans to establish at least one Kadiwa Center per province in partnership with the local government units and agencies.
“Our goal is to have a Kadiwa Center in each province,and in all of the major cities,” she said.
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