Mataas Na Kahoy Municipal Mayor Janet Ilagan and civic leader and ACT-Agri-Kaagapay founder Virginia Rodriguez led the distribution of 500 bags of rice and 300 sacks of fertilizer to families and farmers in Batangas to ensure sufficient food supply among poor households.
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THE ACT-Agri-kaagapay organization has distributed hundreds of sacks of “good quality” rice to poor households in Batangas, with the aim of providing rice and other food assistance to less fortunate families in the province.
Mataas Na Kahoy Municipal Mayor Janet Ilagan and civic leader and ACT-Agri-Kaagapay founder Virginia Rodriguez led the distribution of 500 bags of rice and 300 sacks of fertilizer to families and farmers in Batangas to ensure sufficient food supply among poor households.
Rodriguez said the ACT- Agri-Kaagapay’s rice assistance program and distribution of fertilizer was conceived in light of escalating rice prices and the subsequent challenges faced by Filipino consumers due to continuing increase of basic commodities.
“We aspire to bring to many Filipino people, through our joint programs with the local government units to reach to the less fortunate families who may not have the means to avail of these benefits,” she said.
Rodriguez also cited that rice farming households are also among those who will not be getting any more cash assistance.
“Although agricultural production was among the biggest affected sectors by el Nino, earnings from rice farming are so poor that many rural families also rely on various odd-jobs in the informal sector which have been adversely affected,” she added.
Rodriguez said small farmers and their families deserve to be given assistance to make them productive.
“Many farmer incomes and livelihoods should become a thing of the past. And, as every Filipino deserves, farming communities should have decent education, health and housing as well as the conveniences of water, electricity, telecommunications and transport,” Rodriguez said.
