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Department of the Interior and Local Government Secretary Mar Roxas visited the Province of Nueva Ecija on April 25, 2014 to personally witness how the residents of the province benefited from the different DILG projects implemented in the locality. He, being known as Mr. Palengke during his stint as Secretary of the Department of Trade and Industry also spent time for a simple “kumustahan” with the market vendors in San Jose City. This is after he conversed with the farmer leaders of the Kalasag Farmers Producers Cooperative where Sec. Mar pledged to give them a stall at Farmers Market in Quezon City where they can directly sell their onion products for a much cheaper price. “Darating ang araw di na kayo farmers, kapitalista na kayo”, he said. The cooperative received the 2012 Galing Pook Awards for its Farmer Entrepreneurship Program dubbed as Bridging Farmers to the Corporate Supply Chain.
The Department of the Interior and Local Government Region III together with all the members of the DILG Family in the region namely: Police Regional Office, National Police Commission, Bureau of Jail Management and Penology, Bureau of Fire Protection and Philippine Public Safety College hosted the Unified Flag Raising Ceremony on March 17, 2014 at DSWD Regional Office. 
r and Local Government Region III has presented its proposed budget for FY 2015 to representatives of Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) and Chiefs of Staff (COS) of Congressmen on March 10 and March 13, 2014, respectively. 
