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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 Agriculture (DA). DA Western Visayas Regional Executive Director Remelyn Recoter said the RFFA is from...

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 excess tariff collected from imported rice as mandated by the Rice Tariffication Law (RTL). The regi...

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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 trade by imposing tariffs on imports in lieu of quantitative restrictions and provides a yearly PHP...