SEN. Imee Marcos wants to provide a minimum wage for farmers and farm workers who belong to one of the poorest sectors of society.

Based on the Philippine Statistics Authority 2021 Family Income and Expenditure Survey, farmers had a poverty incidence rate of 30 percent in 2021, slightly lower than the 31.6 percent in 2018.

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