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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 of their produce." Cabatbat said this week marks the eighth time in a row that fuel price hikes ...