Residents and coconut farmers reap the benefits from the completion of a new access road paved by the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) in the municipality of Batan, Aklan
According to DPWH Region 6 Director Nerie D. Bueno, the project involved the concreting of a 2.41-kilometer portland concrete cement pavement (PCCP) road with structural concrete drainage to provide quick, safe, and efficient travel to advance the town’s coconut products to the market.
Besides supporting economic progress primarily the coconut processing industry in Batan, the concrete road also serves as an alternate route to the neighboring province of Capiz, passing through Barangay Damayan in the municipality of Sapian.
The P28.9 million road concreting project was undertaken by DPWH Aklan District Engineering Office through the Roads Leveraging Linkages of Industry and Trade (ROLL IT) Program with the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI).