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VILLAR CONTINUES PROGRAMS TO HELP FARMERS ON USING MODERN TECHNOLOGY DESPITE THE PANDEMIC
BEING true to her commitment, the COVID-19 pandemic has not stopped Sen. Cynthia Villar in helping uplift the lives of Filipino farmers by providing them trainings on modern farm technology to boost their productivity, harvests and income.
The senator, chairperson of the Senate committee on Agriculture and Food, has been continuing her projects and programs that benefited our farmers who belong to the poorest among the poor.
As a result, these training also gives benefit to the agriculture industry which has also been adversely affected by the health crisis, not only in the country, but the whole world.
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BUTUAN CITY, Feb. 19 To make accessible to Agusan rice farmers the appropriate rice production and postharvest machinery and equipment the Department of Agriculture (DA) - Philippine Center for Postharvest Development and Mechanization (PhilMech) granted a total of ₱42.38 million worth of rice mechanization under the Rice Competitiveness Enhancement Fund (RCEF)-Mechanization Component.
DA-Caraga Regional Executive Director Abel James I. Monteagudo together with the PhilMech Director Baldwin G. Jallorina handed the intervention to 15 accredited rice-based farmer’s cooperative and associations (FCAs) in the province of Agusan del Norte and Butuan City.
RCEF Mechanization Component is being implemented by the DA-PhilMech in partnership with DA regional office. In the second year of its implementation, the implementing agencies continue to deliver the appropriate agricultural engineering technology to the rice farmers.
Firm sets up school farm program to help farmers
MANILA, Philippines A Pangasinan-based agricultural firm has launched a school farm initiative to help farmers hone their craft.
Our Farm Republic (OFR) is an integrated and diversified farm which aims to promote modern farming techniques and best practices to boost farmers’ harvests, company founder and head Lea Santiago said.
With the support of the Department of Agriculture’s (DA) Rice Competitiveness Enhancement Fund (RCEF) program, the OFR seeks to stamp out “gawat,” the traditional practice of farmers borrowing money to buy food for their families, Santiago said.
“I always believed there’s money in agriculture and it will remain a sunrise industry,” she said.