Lacson, Senate bets to push free irrigation
Partido Reporma chairman and standard-bearer Panfilo “Ping” Lacson and his senatorial slate will again push for free irrigation for small ...
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Small farmers exempt from irrigation fees
This refers to the article “Promote fairness in free irrigation” which came out June 13 in your newspaper. The article ...
Read moreHouse okays bill on free irrigation for farmers, co-ops
The House of Representatives has approved on third and final reading a measure seeking to strengthen assistance to all farmers ...
Read more‘Promote fairness in free irrigation’
A LARGE group of rice farmers on Monday urged Senator Cynthia Villar to set an exemption in the provision of ...
Read moreKMP urges Congress: Rev up okay of irrigation measures
THE militant farmers group Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas on Wednesday urged the House of Representatives to expedite the approval of ...
Read moreFree irrigation farmers’ victory
THE Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas on Thursday said farmers would make sure there would be no more collection of irrigation ...
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Free irrigation
Senator Cynthia Villar, vice chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture and Food, questions National Irrigation Administration administrator Florencio Padernal ...
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DA officials named
KIDAPAWAN CITY—After reproving National Irrigation Administration officials for contradicting his free irrigation pledge, incoming Agriculture secretary Emmanuel Piñol announced the ...
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‘Free irrigation non-negotiable’
DAVAO CITY—Incoming Agriculture Secretary Emmanuel Piñol on Friday slammed National Irrigation Authority officials for questioning President-elect Rodrigo Duterte’s commitment to providing free ...
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