NAMDE­V­CO, the Na­tion­al Agri­cul­tur­al Mar­ket­ing and De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion, is re­port­ing that to date, it has de­liv­ered 75,000 food box­es un­der Gov­ern­ment’s COVID-19 Gov­ern­ment’s COVID-19 Re­lief Food Sup­port Pro­gramme, which com­menced on May 7th, 2021.

Ac­cord­ing to an of­fi­cial state­ment is­sued in NAMDE­V­CO’s so­cial me­dia pages, the na­tion’s farm­ers have con­tributed tremen­dous­ly to en­sur­ing that thou­sands of vul­ner­a­ble fam­i­lies re­ceived much need­ed food sup­port since the State of Emer­gency be­gan.

NAMDE­V­CO re­ports that for the month of Ju­ly, in ad­di­tion to re­ceiv­ing half dozen eggs and a pack­age with two lo­cal­ly processed chick­ens, each pro­gramme ben­e­fi­cia­ry would have re­ceived food bas­kets con­tain­ing: sweet pota­to, dasheen, cas­sa­va, plan­tain, squash, pineap­ple, cit­rus, me­l­on­gene, paw­paw, wa­ter­mel­on, can­taloupe, corn, bread­fruit, cu­cum­bers, bo­di, dasheen leaves, pi­men­to, sweet pep­per, hot pep­per, ochro and toma­toes, with slight vari­a­tions.

Al­so, for Ju­ly, an ad­di­tion­al 9,000 fam­i­lies, through their Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment Coun­cil­lors, have re­ceived 20,000 soup packs processed at NAMDE­V­CO’s Pi­ar­co Pack­ing­house and 20,000 chick­ens.