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Reelectionist Senator Sonny Angara has asked government to look into the possibility of providing provisional employment to drought-stricken farmers and farmworkers under the administration’s “Build, Build, Build” program to help them deal with the temporary loss of income or livelihood due to the effects of El Niño which are expected to be felt until August […]
Amid the dry spell affecting several areas of the country, senatorial aspirant and former Special Assistant to the President (SAP) Bong Go stressed the need to expand the government’s support for the country’s agriculture sector. According to a recent advisory of the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (Pagasa) at least 10 provinces—six in […]
Reelectionist Senator Sonny Angara said government needs to dispatch immediate help to farmers who are now suffering from drought caused by El Niño. “The government must ensure that intervention programs reach small-scale farmers and farmworkers to help them cope with and mitigate the extreme impacts of El Niño,” Angara said. “The government must ensure intervention […]
The Department of Agriculture (DA) is unveiling a national fertilizer program in a roll-over system, among other initiatives, to make Filipino farmers competitive as being pushed for by President Rodrigo Duterte. Agriculture Secretary Emmanuel Piñol made the disclosure in an interview on the sidelines of his meeting with farmer leaders at the National Food Authority […]
A bill aiming to overhaul the country’s warehouse receipts system to help boost farmer’s productivity, introduced by Senator Win Gatchalian, has been sponsored by Senator Koko Pimentel, III, chairman of the Senate Committee on Trade, Commerce, and Industry. According to Gatchalian, he filed Senate Bill No. 2171, otherwise known as the Philippine Warehouse Receipts Act […]
With the signing into law by President Rodrigo Duterte of the rice tariffication bill on Friday, the measure’s sponsor in the House of Representatives, ANAC-IP Rep. Jose Panganiban, Jr., urged government to ensure that the “safety net for local farmers” in the form of the Rice Competitiveness Enhancement Fund (RCEF) is used properly. “The P10 […]
To help boost farmers’ productivity in the long run, Senator Win Gatchalian is pushing for the passage of a measure that will revitalize and overhaul the over a century-old warehouse receipt system of the Philippines. Senate Bill No. 2171 (SBN 2171) or the Philippine Warehouse Receipts Act of 2019, principally authored by Gatchalian, has been […]
The Department of Agriculture‘s (DA) new National Farmers and Fishermen Database (NFFD) is long overdue and should help the government improve its efforts to help the sector, according to House Committee on Agriculture and Food chair and ANAC-IP Rep. Jose T. Panganiban, Jr., who on Wednesday lauded the DA’s newest “hi-tech” initiative. “Dapat dati pa […]
The rice tariffication bill, when signed by President Rodrigo Duterte, will greatly benefit not just consumers, but rice farmers as well. This was the assurance given by House Agriculture Committee chair and ANAC-IP Rep. Jose T. Panganiban, Jr., who on Monday spoke of the benefits of the measure after the bill hurdled the bicameral conference […]
Senator Cynthia Villar, chair of the Senate Committee on Agriculture and Food, asked farmers to be firm in their heroic work of producing food for every Filipino as she revealed that the administration of President Rodrigo Duterte would soon be pouring multi-billion-peso funds for various agriculture programs. Speaking before farmers and other agriculture stakeholders during […]