BANAYBANAY, DAVAO ORIENTAL — This town is just composed of over 13,000 households where the majority of its residents are into rice farming and has been known to produce ‘Banaybanay Rice”, the rice granary of Davao Oriental and among the producing towns of Southern Mindanao.

But they too were not spared from the deadly coronavirus pandemic. Truth to that, the town hosted the first big nine Coronavirus positive patients of Davao Oriental, but the leadership of the provincial government led by Governor Nelson Dayanghirang and the town Mayor Ada Caballero Lopez has accorded local capacities in coping, to be able to survive the impacts of the pandemic.

The first and the toughest checkpoint this reporter has ever passed is located on the highway of Barangay Pintatagan. However, my group was so impressed as the team seems to be so thorough in handling their defined health protocol.

The Newsline took the time to interview Lopez, as the chief executive of the rice-producing town of Banaybanay. Here is the one-on-one interview between Newsline and Mayor Lopez.

Source: Newsline.ph