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The P500-million increase in the 2023 budget for direct fuel subsidies or "ayuda" to public utility vehicle (PUV) drivers will help the government cope with uncertainties in the world oil market. (MANILA BULLETIN) Quezon City 4th district Rep. Marvin Rillo of the House Committee on App

Senator Sherwin Gatchalian on Friday, January 13 called for the establishment of more Kadiwa Centers to enable consumers gain more access to affordable agricultural products. Gatchalian said creating more farm-to-market retail centers, such as Kadiwa stores, would empower local farmers as it w

President Marcos has correctly identified food insufficiency and the dismal performance of the agricultural sector as among the country’s greatest vulnerabilities.

Farmers said Marcos Jr's decision to give priority to debt servicing and infrastructure during this period of worsening food crisis is telling of what’s in store for Filipinos in the next six years.

The Department of Agriculture (DA) said it needs an additional P600 million to bankroll its expanded fuel voucher program that seeks to help more farmers cope with rising oil prices. The DA said it has already requested the funds for its expanded Fuel Discount for Farmers and Fisherfolk Program or…

More than 126,000 corn farmers and fisherfolk have been allocated with the government's Fuel Discount for Farmers and Fisherfolk Program (FDFFP), the Department of Agriculture (DA) said on Tuesday, Aug. 9. The program rolled out in March this year and is now nearing the realization of its goal of

The Department of Agriculture (DA) said it will resume the distribution of financial aid to rice farmers after the May 9 elections. In his message during a recent event in Nueva Ecija, Agriculture Secretary William D. Dar said the DA’s rice farmers financial assistance (RFFA) program, which provides P5,000 cash…

Fuel discount for agriculture sector launched

The Department of Agriculture (DA), through the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR), has distributed fuel subsidies to hundreds of fisherfolk in Central Luzon on March 21 following a series of nationwide oil price increase this month heightened by the ongoing Russia-Ukraine crisis. Out of the 79,365 fisherfolk the…

(File photo) MANILA - A lawmaker on Monday called for the immediate release of fuel subsidy and other forms of assistance for farmers and fisherfolk amid the soaring prices of oil in the international market. Magsasaka Party-list Rep. Argel Cabatbat said the successive oil price increases have an indirect effect on the prices of farm inputs, especially since farmers and fisherfolk are already "bearing the brunt of skyrocketing costs of fertilizers and the unreasonably low farm gate prices o...