PAGADIAN CITY: More interventions to farmers adversely affected by the latest implementation of the Rice Tariffication Law have been pledged by Agriculture Secretary William Dar, according to Zamboanga del Sur Gov. Victor Yu.

Dar was earlier reported to have pledged to fast-track DA’s proper and efficient enforcement of “various components and interventions under the P10 billion Rice Competitiveness Enhancement Fund (RCEF)” even as he previously distributed, conducted necessary trainings and bidded for appropriate machinery “together with validation of farmers’ cooperatives and processing and granting of loans.”