Today is the 3rd leg of the Rice Farmers' Financial Assistance (RFFA) distribution of the Department of Agriculture Regional Field Office 7 (DA-RFO7) in the province of Cebu for March.
According to Cebu’s Agriculture Program Coordinating Officer Lorelei Acha, the system for the financial distribution of P5T per farmer starts with a verification procedure which includes an interview of the farmers’ details,
RFFA Beneficiaries in Siquijor to use cash for purchase of fertilizers
Speaking on behalf of the farmers who received the P5T cash subsidy from the Department of Agriculture’s Rice Farmers’ Financial Assistance program, Margie Malicay, rice farmer of Cang-atuyom, Siquijor, said they will use the assistance to buy fertilizers.
A team of Japanese officials leading in the data collection for the field survey for water resources development in Central Visayas paid a courtesy call to Assistant Secretary Salvador Diputado and Regional Executive Director Joel Elumba
Tadahiro Fukuda, team leader; Kiyoshi Hirata in charge of hydrological analysis, and Chihiro Hiraoka, team operations support officer, laid down their itinerary which will involve site inspection in various locations in Cebu, Bohol, and Negros Oriental.
Another 2,284 farmers in Canlaon City, Negros Oriental, receive P5T each from the Department of Agriculture Regional Field Office 7, in an ongoing rollout of the Rice Farmer Financial Assistance, today.
Regional Executive Director Joel Elumba, hands over the cash subsidy to the farmers with Congressman Jocelyn Limkaichong of the 1st district, and Mayor Jose Chubasco of the said city.
Three young farmers receive P150T each from the Department of Agriculture- Agribusiness and Marketing Assistance Division from the Young Farmers' Challenge in 2021
The three regional winners of the said competition are Juliano Cumad, 29 years old from Poblacion Asturias, Cebu; Ronald Paron, 26 years old from Canlaon, Negros Oriental, and Florencio Quintinita Jr., 26 years old from Malabuyoc, Cebu.
Six Siquijor FAs receive layer chickens from the DA7-SAAD program
Siquijor expects to boost egg production after the Department of Agriculture 7- Special Area for Agricultural Development (DA7-SAAD) program distributed 21 modules of layer chicken to six associations in the province, this month.
Armi Lopez Garcia, chairman of the Philippine National Cacao Industry Council (PNCIC), paid a courtesy call to the Department of Agriculture Regional Executive Director Joel Elumba, and Regional Technical Director Wilberto Castillo
Garcia was advised to have the PNCIC accredited by the Philippine Council for Agriculture and Fisheries-DA’s accreditation body, for them to avail of DA interventions and grants.
DA’s Balik Probinsya program supports corn producers in Bohol
The Department of Agriculture’s Balik Probinsya Bagong Pag-asa program turned over 150 sacks of hybrid corn seeds and three corn shellers to the Varrons Federation of People’s Organization (VFPO) in Cabatuan- a conglomeration of 11 farmer-associations in Danao, Bohol.
DA-7 turned over several agricultural equipment to Negros Oriental farmers.
The Department of Agriculture Central Visayas recently turned over a hauling truck worth P1.8M to the Lag-it Farmers Association, farm implements to Guincalaban farmers association, and a weighing scale worth P268T to the local government unit of Tayasan, Negros Oriental, yesterday.