Moro farmers in two neighboring towns whose production dwindled drastically due to changes in climate and weather patterns each received cash assistance from a member of the 80-seat Bangsamoro parliament and the agriculture ministry in the autonomous region.

The 25 beneficiaries of the cash grants from the office of the regional lawmaker Kadil Monera Sinolinding, Jr., channeled through the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Aquatic Resources, are from the newly-created Old Kaabacan town in BARMM’s Special Geographic Area in Cotabato province and barangays in the nearby Pagalungan, Maguindanao del Sur.

Sinolinding, a physician-ophthalmologist trained in India, also functions as Bangsamoro regional health minister in concurrent capacity. He and volunteers from different cause-oriented and peace advocacy blocs and teams from the Ministry of Health-BARMM had treated 13,345 marginalized patients with eye problems in humanitarian missions in the past three years.

The office of BARMM’s chief minister, Abdulrauf Macacua, also supported MAFAR-BARMM and Sinolinding’s outreach engagement with the 25 Moro farmers from Pagalungan and Old Kaabacan, who received monetary support via recorded payouts last week at the agriculture ministry’s office in Cotabato City.

Old Kaabacan is one of the eight predominantly Moro municipalities, covering barangays originally under Cotabato province in Region 12, that the BARMM lawmaking body created last year via separate enabling measures.

Pagalungan Mayor Abdilah Mamasabulod told reporters on Sunday, July 27, that he is grateful to Sinolinding, to the MAFAR-BARMM and to the office of Macacua, who is figurehead of the 80-seat Bangsamoro parliament, for providing his constituents with cash assistance they need to cope up with farming losses. (July 27, 2025, in Cotabato City in the Bangsamoro region)