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ROLL-OUT. Agriculture Secretary William Dar says during a press briefer on Wednesday (March 16, 2022) the rollout of the fuel subsidy to farmers and fishers will kick off in Tacloban, Leyte on Thursday (March 17. 2022) during the visit of President Rodrigo Duterte. Dar said there is a possibility for a second tranche of the program with bigger financing. (Screengrab) MANILA - Farmers and fishers in Leyte will be the pioneer recipients of the Department of Agriculture's (DA) Fuel Subsidy Prog...

CASH ASSISTANCE. Farmer-beneficiaries from the Municipality of San Jose de Buenavista receive cash assistance from the Department of Agriculture (DA) at the Delegate Angel Salazar, Jr. Memorial School in their municipality on March 14, 2022. Sonie Guanco, officer-in-charge of the Agricultural Program Coordinating Office (APCO), said on Tuesday (March 15) the DA aims to distribute cash assistance to 34,333 farmers in the province within this month.(Photo courtesy of APCO) SAN JOSE DE BUENAVISTA, ...

Farmers and fisherfolk under the Registry System for Basic Sectors in Agriculture (RSBSA) will be prioritized in the distribution of P500 million fuel subsidy and other assistance, the Department of Agriculture (DA) said. In a statement, DA Sec. William Dar disclosed that as of March 8, a total of

(File photo) MANILA - The Department of Agriculture (DA) will prioritize farmers and fisherfolk under the Registered System for Basic Sectors in Agriculture (RSBSA) in distributing the PHP500-million fuel subsidy. DA Assistant Secretary-designate for Operations, Arnel de Mesa, told the Philippine News Agency on Friday that it is not possible to assist everyone, given the limited budget. "We have only PHP500 million so the DA will select the beneficiaries with priority to those in the RSBSA,...

(PNA file photo) MANILA - Subsidies for the agriculture sector, particularly the fishing industry, have now been made available to help fishermen survive the effects of the current global economic setback fanned by the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) pandemic. Agriculture Undersecretary for Agri-Industrialization and Fisheries Cheryl Marie Natividad-Caballero said that almost 80,000 fishermen stand to benefit from the Department of Agriculture's (DA) fuel subsidy program. "Beneficia...

The Department of Agriculture’s (DA) P5.85-billion fertilizer voucher program, which will provide subsidies to planters, aims to cover some 3 million hectares of rice farms. Eligible rice farmers may use the fertilizer voucher to buy fertilizer grades, including complete, urea, ammonium sulfate, ammonium phosphate, and muriate of potash. The DA…

Eligible Filipino corn farmers and fisherfolk could get a maximum fuel discount of P3,000 under the government’s P500-million fuel subsidy program for the agriculture sector, guidelines released by the Department of Agriculture (DA) showed. The DA issued Memorandum Circular (MC) 7 that outlined the implementing guidelines on the provision of…

(Photo courtesy of DA-COMMS) MANILA - The Rice Competitiveness Enhancement Fund (RCEF) contributed largely to the Philippines' food security amid the Covid-19 pandemic, an official of the Department of Agriculture (DA) said Thursday. Deputy Executive Director of DA's Philippine Rice Research Institute Dr. Flordeliza Bordey said through the DA's RCEF, a program created by the Rice Tariffication Law, the total palay (unhusked rice) production recorded a consistent high since it was imp...

CASH GRANT. Farmers in Northern Samar receive a PHP5,000 cash grant from the national government in Catarman town on Feb. 25, 2022. Nearly 2,000 rice farmers in Northern Samar have received the cash aid from the central government under the Rice Competitiveness Enhancement Fund - Rice Farmers Financial Assistance, the Department of Agriculture reported on Tuesday (March 1, 2022).(Photo courtesy of DA-Eastern Visayas) TACLOBAN CITY - Nearly 2,000 rice farmers in Northern Samar have received cash ...

4,871 more farmers get financial assistance