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FINANCIAL AID. Agriculture Secretary William Dar (5th from left, back row) leads the distribution of the Rice Farmers Financial Assistance (RFFA) to recipient-farmers in Oton, Iloilo. Under the RFFA, each rice farmer tilling below two hectares will receive PHP5,000. (PNA photo courtesy of DA-RAFID VI) ILOILO CITY - Some 234,199 rice farmers tilling land two hectares and below in Western Visayas will benefit from the PHP1.17 billion Rice Farmers Financial Assistance (RFFA) of the Department of Ag...

Agriculture Secretary William Dar (Photo courtesy ofDA Comms Group) MANILA - It was the turn of Agusan del Sur farmers to benefit from the Rice Competitiveness Enhancement Fund-Rice Farmers Financial Assistance (RCEF-RFFA) Program. On Tuesday, Department of Agriculture (DA) Secretary William Dar kicked off the distribution of PHP5,000 unconditional cash grant to 1,844 rice farmers in the Caraga Region province. The beneficiaries equally shared the PHP9.22 million from the RFFA, sourced from the ...

NegOcc guv: Pandemic gravely affects urban poor

The government will distribute direct cash assistance of P5,000 to as many as 59,125 farmers in Nueva Ecija to be funded from the excess rice import tariff collection under the Rice Competitiveness Enhancement Fund (RCEF). The Department of Agriculture (DA) formally launched this week RCEF’s Rice F

Rice farmers (Photo courtesy of DA Communications Group) MANILA - Despite criticisms, Department of Agriculture (DA) Secretary William Dar on Thursday said the Rice Tariffication Law (RTL) is a game-changing reform policy that broke the decades-long inefficiency of the country's rice sector and enhanced its prospect of being globally competitive. "The RTL is a transformative reform that benefits all industry stakeholders - most particularly farmers and consumers - as it liberalizes rice...

Rice farmers (Photo courtesy of DA Communications Group) MANILA - Despite criticisms, Department of Agriculture (DA) Secretary William Dar on Thursday said the Rice Tariffication Law (RTL) is a game-changing reform policy that broke the decades-long inefficiency of the country's rice sector and enhanced its prospect of being globally competitive. "The RTL is a transformative reform that benefits all industry stakeholders - most particularly farmers and consumers - as it liberalizes rice...

Cordillera farmers benefit from P556-M agri assistance

ASSISTANCE TO FARMERS. One of the beneficiaries, Alfredo Honrado (3rd from left), receives the PHP5,000 cash assistance from the Department of Agriculture under the Rice Competitiveness Enhancement Fund-Rice Farmers Financial Assistance (RCEF-RFFA) Program on Friday (Nov. 5, 2021). The distribution was led by Agriculture Secretary William Dar (3rd from right) and Pangasinan Governor Amado Espino III (2nd from left). (PNA photo by Hilda Austria) LINGAYEN, Pangasinan - The Department of Agricultur...

FRUITS OF RTL.The Department of Agriculture can expand its financial assistance to rice farmers amid the pandemic because of the available fund that came from the Rice Tariffication Law. Agriculture Secretary William Dar said Thursday (Nov. 4, 2021) that for this year, about 1.6 million rice farmers nationwide would each receive a cash aid of PHP5,000.(DA Comms Group) MANILA -The Department of Agriculture (DA) will provide cash assistance to about 1.6 million farmers nationwide under the Rice Co...

Farmers have asked the Department of Agriculture (DA) and the National Food Authority (NFA) to immediately provide more large-capacity mechanical grain dryers to help them during this palay harvest season, which is facing the onset of La Nina. Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP) said in a sta