The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) on Friday, June 23 assured Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) beneficiaries that they will continue to receive support from local government units (LGUs), as well as various government agencies and the private sector, even after they...
LIGAO CITY, Albay – Beneficiaries of the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) here have established a free vegetable pantry for Mayon Volcano evacuees at the Albay Campsite Evacuation Center in Barangay Basag, this city. BENEFICIARIES of the 4Ps program in Ligao City in Albay are offering...
Sen. Cynthia Villar said she is confident that President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. will soon sign into law the bill condoning loans of farmers and agrarian reform beneficiaries (ARBs). Sen. Cynthia Villar (Senate PRIB Photo) Villar, chairperson of the...
Despite the lack of resources, Senator Francis “Chiz” Escudero on Sunday, June 4, said he agrees with the proposal to increase the cash grant under the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps), the government’s poverty reduction program. ...
(Keith Bacongco/ MANILA BULLETIN) House Speaker Martin Romualdez explained on Friday, May 26 the importance of the proposed New Agrarian Emancipation Act, which is poised to be enacted next by President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. Embodied in House Bill (HB) No. 6336, the measure seeks to...
A beneficiary of the Department of Social Welfare and Development's (DSWD) Pantawid sa Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) has topped the April 2023 Civil Engineers Licensure Examination. Courtesy of DSWD Alexis Castillo Alegado, who graduated cum laude from Mariano Marcos State University in Batac,...
ILOILO CITY – The Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) on Friday, Feb. 17, distributed land titles to a total of 1,500 Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries (ARBs) across Western Visayas. SECRETARY Conrado Estrella III of the Department of Agrarian Reform distributes land titles to agrarian beneficiaries...
BUTUAN CITY – The Department of Social Welfare and Development revealed recently that 51,113 new households are set to be included as beneficiaries of the government’s Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program or 4Ps in Northeastern Mindanao or the Caraga region this year. They are addition or...
The Committee on Poverty Alleviation in the House of Representatives has approved the substitute bill on measures seeking to expand the government's Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps). (PPAB) Approved by the 1-PACMAN Party-list Rep. Mikee Romero-chaired panel during a recent public hearing...
All loans including interests, penalties and surcharges, due from P14.62 billion loans arising from the award of agriculture lands under the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) as of December 31,2022 should be condoned. Cynthia A. Villar, chairman of the Senate agriculture, food and...
Senator Manuel “Lito” Lapid is now pushing for a bill seeking to provide full crop insurance for qualified agrarian reform beneficiaries of the government’s Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP). In filing Senate Bill No. 1766, which seeks to amend Republic Act No. 6657, Lapid said it...
The Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) said it will soon distribute over 400,000 hectares of agricultural lands to farmer-beneficiaries through the Support to Parcelization of Lands for Individual Titling (SPLIT) project. FARMERS in Western Visayas region are urged to adapt to climate-resilient...