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BY GILBERT P. BAYORAN The provincial government of Negros Occidental on August 3 distributed P5.7 million worth of Survival and Recovery Loan Assistance

NON-COLLATERALIZED LOAN. Negros Occidental Governor Eugenio Jose Lacson turns over a check to a Typhoon Odette-affected recipient of the Department of Agriculture's Survival and Recovery Loan Assistance in Kabankalan City on Thursday (August 4, 2022). The PHP10,000 non-collateralized loan is extended to each qualified household at a zero-percent interest rate payable in three years.(Photo courtesy of PIO Negros Occidental) BACOLOD CITY - Some 595 farmers in southern Negros Occidental affected by Typhoon Odette last December availed of a no-interest loan amounting to PHP10,000 each from the...

LAOAG CITY - A total of 2,218 rice farmers here each received a PHP5,000 cash aid on Thursday to boost their competitiveness amid a looming food crisis. The distribution of financial assistance is part of the Department of Agriculture's continuing efforts to help eligible farmer-beneficiaries to cope with the surging prices of fuel and agricultural inputs, among others, through the Rice Farmers Financial Assistance Program under Republic Act 11203 or the Rice Tariffication Law. As he affixed his electronic signature to an online database of farmer-beneficiaries at the Laoag central termina...

(PNA file photo) LEGAZPI CITY - The City Agriculture Office (CAO) here is urging farmers to form or join cooperatives to benefit from the various government programs aimed at increasing their income. CAO chief Shiela Naz, in an interview on Monday, said she is encouraging farmers to become members of associations because this is part of the requirements for enlistment in the Registry System for Basic Sector of Agriculture (RSBSA). "The RSBSA is part of the Rice Competitiveness Enhancement Fund (RCEF) Mechanization program of the Department of Agriculture that is giving the farmers free fa...

(File photo courtesy of DA) LEGAZPI CITY - At least 40 of the more than 350 hog raisers here have received imported piglets as a major component of the rapid repopulation, restocking, and genetic improvement and enhancement livestock program of the City Veterinary Office (CVO). In an interview on Tuesday, CVO chief Dr. Emmanuel Estipona said the recipients were all pre-registered at the Legazpi Livestock Poultry Raisers Agriculture Cooperative (LLPRAC) and the Registry System for Basic Sector for Agriculture (RSBSA). "We started the dispersal of hybrid female piglets from October last yea...