AGRICULTURE Secretary Emmanuel F. Piñol said that the Department of Agriculture (DA) will compensate farmers in the Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR) who were forced to dispose of their vegetables due to oversupply and lack of means to transport the harvest to market.
AGRICULTURE Secretary Emmanuel F. Piñol said that the Department of Agriculture (DA) will compensate farmers in the Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR) who were forced to dispose of their vegetables due to oversupply and lack of means to transport the harvest to market.
“Cordillera farmers who were forced to dump or throw away truckloads of vegetables because there were no buyers will have to be compensated by the government,” Mr. Piñol said in a Facebook post on Thursday.
“I made this decision tonight following confirmation by Cordillera Agriculture officials that the reason behind the failure of the farmers to sell their produce was Tropical Depression Usman which caused floods in the Bicol Region,” Mr. Piñol added.
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