ILOILO CITY — Panay upland farmers will no longer become vulnerable to price manipulation by traders, as it has found a marketing arm – no less involving their fellow farmers, with the aid of the Korean International Cooperation Agency (KOICA).
ILOILO CITY — Panay upland farmers will no longer become vulnerable to price manipulation by traders, as it has found a marketing arm – no less involving their fellow farmers, with the aid of the Korean International Cooperation Agency (KOICA).
Executive Director of Agriculture for Western Visayas, Remelyn Recoter, said that KOICA funded the three-phase Panay Island Upland Sustainable Rural Development Project (PIUSRDP) since it was implemented starting 2015.
KOICA is a government-funded agency dedicated to grant aid program. “We are hoping that this can help our upland farmers,” she said in a phone interview Friday, following the launch of the project’s third phase in San Miguel Iloilo on February 7.
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