Tag: #Federation of Free Farmers (FFF)
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Gov’t interventions in farm sector ‘too little, too late’
Government interventions in the highly vulnerable farm sector may be “too little or too late”, which may be the reason for the sector’s 1.4 percent decline in 2020.
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Coconut farmers to ask PRRD to veto Coco Levy Act
Coconut farmers are coming up with a position paper that will formally ask President Rodrigo Duterte to veto Coconut Farmers and Industry Trust Fund or the Coco Levy Act, which will pave the way for the release of the P100-billion Coco Levy Fund.
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Millennials seen taking over PH’s agriculture sector
The Department of Agriculture (DA) said it’s only a matter of time before the majority of the country’s farmers bid farewell to farming due to old age, and that the agriculture sector will soon be taken over by millennials.
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PH’s rice production to significantly increase in 2021
Even if a group of farmers in the Philippines said it may take a while for them to recover from Quinta, Rolly, and Ulysses, a foreign agency is convinced that these typhoons that struck the country last month will not have a significant impact on next year’s production.
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Rice farmers seek bigger financial aid
The one-time financial assistance that the Senate directed the Department of Agriculture (DA) to provide to rice farmers amid the declining prices of palay would not be enough, a group of rice farmers said.
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Hontiveros to work for RTL amendments
As the prices of palay sank to as low as P12 per kilogram (/kg) in some areas, Senator Risa Hontiveros agreed there is a need to amend the Rice Tariffication Law (RTL) and promised to convince the law’s author and fellow senator, Cynthia Villar, about it.