DA assures fertilizer subsidy for wet planting season

By Eireene Jairee Gomez

Aug 18, 2021 12:46 am

THE Department of Agriculture (DA) is giving rice farmers assurance that its nationwide fertilizer program under its Rice Resiliency Project 2 (RRP2) will continue to sustain the country's rice production during this wet planting season.

'We will not stop this subsidy as long as we have budget allotted for it,' Agriculture Undersecretary for Operations Ariel Cayanan said in Filipino during DA's media briefing on Tuesday.

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