64T Rice Farmers in Bohol, NegOr to get financial subsidy from DA

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Created on Monday, 11 May 2020

Rice farmers of Bohol and Negros Oriental will soon get their P5,000 cash subsidy from the Department of Agriculture (DA) thru the Land Bank of the Philippines (LBP).

Atty. Salvador Diputado, regional executive director of DA-Central Visayas said that the region was able to submit 64,033 rice farmers to DA Central for the processing of the said subsidy.

The number surpasses the regional target of around 62,142.

Per guidelines, only rice farmers tilling below one hectare and are duly registered in the Registry System for Basic Sectors in Agriculture (RSBSA) are qualified to avail of the P 5,000 cash assistance under the DA's Financial Subsidy for Rice Farmers (FSRF). Of these, 1,497 farmers have already received their cash subsidy because they already have an existing LBP account.

The FSRF is an intervention that will support the rice farmers who are affected of the quarantine due to COVID-19 pandemic.

Diputado said that for Central Visayas, only Bohol and Negros Oriental were included due to the areas planted to rice. This is in accordance with the guidelines of the program.

"Kining 64 thousand rice farmers nga ato gisubmit sa Central Office, dugay kaayo ang kumbati sa pag-encode nato niini. Kinahanglan nga ang encoded names ma-verify and ma-validate pag-ayo aron walay duplication sa mga ngalan. Naa man mga higayon, nga ang uban rice farmers kaduha or katulo sila mopirma sa RSBSA forms tungod kay ang ilang umahan naa sa lain-laing lugar. Ang atong mga Municipal Agricultural Offices and Technicians nga maoy ni-facilitate sa survey and listing, dili man nila mailhan nga kini si farmer A nakasign na diay ni sa RSBSA didto sa laing lugar. Mao nga ig submit nila sa region, ig ma-encode, ato ning iverify for double entry,” pahayag pa ni Diputado.

(These 64 thousand rice farmers which we submit to Central Office, took us sometime in encoding. We need to verify and validate to avoid duplication of entries. There are instances that some farmers will fill-up the RSBSA forms twice or thrice because their farms are located in different municipalities. Our Municipal Agricultural Offices (MAOs) in the municipalities who facilitated for the survey and listing cannot identify that this farmer A was able to sign the RSBSA in other municipalities. Hence, when they submit the RSBSA in the region, once we encoded it, we need to verify for double name entries, Diputado explained.)

Diputado said that the latest report from LBP-Bohol indicates that the release of the 5k dole out from Land Bank will start on Friday, May 8 2020.