A group of progressive fisherfolk has urged the Department of Agriculture (DA) to mobilize its calamity funds for boat distribution and livelihood rehabilitation for fishers affected by the onslaught of Typhoon Paeng.
A fisherman in Cavite (Manila Bulletin File Photo)
In a statement released,
Fisherfolk group Pambansang Lakas ng Kilusang Mamamalakaya ng Pilipinas (KMP) on Tuesday, Nov. 8, disclosed that several Filipino fishermen are still enduring the destruction that tropical cyclone Paeng left.
Paeng, the country’s 16th tropical cyclone in 2022 and the fourth in the month of Octobe
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Discount vouchers are not enough.
This was according to peasant group Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP) who said that apart from the government’s fertilizer discount vouchers, a P15,000 production subsidy is also “necessary,” reiterating that farmers also “need cash.”
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Magsasaka Party-list continues to push for the passage of a bill that seeks the condonation of debt burdens and amortizations accrued by agrarian reform beneficiaries (ARBs).
Sugarcane farmers (Manila Bulletin File Photo)
“Condoning the debts now of the agrarian reform beneficiaries will not o