BRIEF HISTORY

Bayanihan Hundred islands Agrarian Reform Cooperative (BHIARCo)

(Formerly Palamis ARC Multi Purpose Cooperative)

Palamis Agrarian Reform Multi-Purpose Cooperative was organized on 2002 in response to the program of the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) to organize a cooperative with agrarian reform beneficiaries as members within the agrarian reform community (ARC). The Bayanihan, composing of ten (10) clustered barangays will then be the recipient of all programs and projects of the department within the ARC.

With the initiative of the seven (7) founding directors headed by Luisita Rarang, the Chairman and 15 Cooperators with paid up Share Capital of  (P15,000.00) the cooperative was registered with the Cooperative Development Authority(CDA) on March 19, 2010.

The cooperative started its lending business in the year 2010 with five (5) borrowers who are regularly paying their monthly amortization. The same year, the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) launched the Dar-ADB farm to market road project in Barangay Tangcarang, Macatiw and Limansangan as the recipient of the said project and the BHIARCo as the subject organization who will benefited from the 10% rural infrastructures scheme of the project amounting to P70.000.00. Five thousand pesos was used for the meat processing. The PARMPC joined several local trade fairs to promote their longanisa business.

DAR interventions was given to the Coop such as the Duck Raising, Balut Production, Tindahan Natin sa ARC Project (TNAP) and the ongoing ARISP III with 5 components such as 1) AAD Certified Inbred Rice Production with 20 ARB cooperartors 2) FMR-Linmansangan, Balangobong and Bisocol 3) Irrigation-Alos Paed and the Alos Conconig 4) PHF- to be implemented this October and 5) the MICOOP Program (Microfinance Innovation in Cooperatives) under the DAR/NATCCO Partnership.

In the General Assembly of April 28, 2012 members unanimously approved the proposed amendments of Cooperative name into Bayanihan Hundred Islands Agrarian Reform Cooperative.  The Grand Reopening of BHIARC in partnership with NATCCO & DAR held on October 11, 2013, in it's new office at L. Rivera Sr. St. Poblacion, Alaminos City, Pangasinan