Local farmers have earned P5.8 billion from selling their produce to local government units (LGUs) and through the government’s marketing platforms during the months-long lockdowns, the Department of Agriculture (DA) said.
Local farmers have earned P5.8 billion from selling their produce to local government units (LGUs) and through the government marketing platforms during the months-long lockdowns, the Department of Agriculture (DA) said.
We commend more than 750 Kadiwa outlets and communities, and 425 LGUs that procured P3.45 billion and P2.38 billion, respectively, of various products from more than 15,000 individual farmers and fishers, and 3,250 farmers cooperatives and associations nationwide, assuring them of direct market and reasonable incomes, Agriculture Secretary William D. Dar said in a recent statement.
Dar said LGUs bought palay worth almost P2 billion; poultry and livestock products, P193 million; vegetables, fruits and other crops, P94.6 million; and fisheries and aquaculture products, P92.3 million.
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