ROMUALDEZ, TINGOG SOLONS DISTRIBUTE CASH TO FARMERS
Atotal of 2,044 farmers from the municipality of San Miguel, Leyte were given cash aid worth more than P10 million Friday as part of a program seeking to aid struggling farmers under the Marcos administration.
Officials of the offices from Speaker Ferdinand Martin G. Romualdez and Tingog Partylist of Reps. Yedda K. Romualdez and Jude Acidre, and the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) led the distribution of financial aid worth P5,000 for each of the farmer-bene ciaries in San Miguel under the Farmers’ Assistance for Recovery and Modernization (FARM) Program.
“This program is part of the directive of our beloved President Bongbong Marcos Jr. for the government to reach out to sectors that need support especially if many of them are poor,” said Romualdez, leader of the 300-plus-strong House of Representatives.
“Your government knows the hardship you are facing, especially this El Niño season where all crops are a ected. So may this aid ease your su ering and help you recover in the coming seasons,” he added.
The distribution was undertaken at the San Miguel Municipal Gymnasium, with Mayor Norman Sabdao and SB Leticia Asis Espos present during the ceremony.
The FARM program is an initiative of Speaker Romualdez designed to lower the price of rice by utilizing and maximizing existing government interventions available to farmers.
The nancial aid to San Miguel farmers, which totaled P10.22 million, was sourced from the Assistance to Individuals in Crisis Situations (AICS) of the DSWD.
Romualdez said that based on studies, prices of basic commodities increase if the price of rice increases.