Tag: free irrigation

Partido Reporma chairman and standard-bearer Panfilo “Ping” Lacson and his senatorial slate will again push for free irrigation for small farmers nationwide, noting Saturday...

This refers to the article “Promote fairness in free irrigation” which came out June 13 in your newspaper. The article quoted the statements from the...

The House of Representatives has approved on third and final reading a measure seeking to strengthen assistance to all farmers by providing them with...

A LARGE group of rice farmers on Monday urged Senator Cynthia Villar to set an exemption in the provision of free irrigation service. In an...

THE militant farmers group Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas on Wednesday urged the House of Representatives to expedite the approval of free irrigation bills in...

THE Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas on Thursday said farmers would make sure there would be no more collection of irrigation service fees in 2017. “Free...

Senator Cynthia Villar, vice chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture and Food, questions National Irrigation Administration administrator Florencio Padernal on the agency’s P36-billion...

KIDAPAWAN CITY—After reproving National Irrigation Administration officials for contradicting his free irrigation pledge, incoming Agriculture secretary Emmanuel Piñol announced the agency’s new head as...

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 irrigation to farmers. “Anybody in...