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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 implemented in September 2019. "Our total palay output only increased through the years since the ...
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 aid from the central government under the Rice Competitiveness Enhancement Fund - Rice Farmers Finan...
4,871 more farmers get financial assistance