15 November 2005
NFA support price of P10 per kg stays
GOVERNMENT palay procurement in Pangasinan this cropping season, from September to February, comes at the guaranteed support price of P10 per kg., still as part of the Arroyo administration’s Beat the Odds program.
Aside from the usual P10/kg palay support price, the National Food Authority in western Pangasinan is also giving additional incentives of P0.15 and P0.10/kg to farmers for drying and transporting their produce to NFA warehouses and P0.25/kg as Cooperative Development Incentive Fee for the post-harvest facility build up.
The program aims to encourage farmers and farmers’ groups to deliver their produce to the NFA while assuring them of a fair return of their investment which is a big boost to the cooperative, Provincial Manager Arturo Figueroa said.
Some 24,568 bags have been bought by NFA from farmer cooperatives of the province, so far.
Farmer organizations are likewise encouraged to sell their palay to the NFA to avail of other additional incentive like the Farmers’s Incentive Rice (FAIR) Purchase Program which gives farmer cooperatives the option to buy back from the NFA up to 25% of the rice equivalent of the palay stocks they sold to the NFA, subject to the availability of rice in warehouses.
Seven warehouses are accepting palay deliveries from accredited farmers
organizations and individual farmers located in Alaminos GID warehouse in barangay Pandayan; Managterem GID warehouse in brgy.Umangan; Kazenbar 4 warehouse in Tebeng, Dagupan and Star Genielien and Ferrer Warehouse in Lingayen
Meanwhile, the NFA branch here has assured Pangasinenses there is enough supply of rice.
Current rice inventory of the province on the macro level stands at 4,968,549 bags of rice, good to last for 470 days and includes households and commercial stocks, the NFA reported.
The agency is also ready to supply government rice to LGUs thru the Rice Loan program in the event of calamity and/or emergency. (VMHS)
Aside from the usual P10/kg palay support price, the National Food Authority in western Pangasinan is also giving additional incentives of P0.15 and P0.10/kg to farmers for drying and transporting their produce to NFA warehouses and P0.25/kg as Cooperative Development Incentive Fee for the post-harvest facility build up.
The program aims to encourage farmers and farmers’ groups to deliver their produce to the NFA while assuring them of a fair return of their investment which is a big boost to the cooperative, Provincial Manager Arturo Figueroa said.
Some 24,568 bags have been bought by NFA from farmer cooperatives of the province, so far.
Farmer organizations are likewise encouraged to sell their palay to the NFA to avail of other additional incentive like the Farmers’s Incentive Rice (FAIR) Purchase Program which gives farmer cooperatives the option to buy back from the NFA up to 25% of the rice equivalent of the palay stocks they sold to the NFA, subject to the availability of rice in warehouses.
Seven warehouses are accepting palay deliveries from accredited farmers
organizations and individual farmers located in Alaminos GID warehouse in barangay Pandayan; Managterem GID warehouse in brgy.Umangan; Kazenbar 4 warehouse in Tebeng, Dagupan and Star Genielien and Ferrer Warehouse in Lingayen
Meanwhile, the NFA branch here has assured Pangasinenses there is enough supply of rice.
Current rice inventory of the province on the macro level stands at 4,968,549 bags of rice, good to last for 470 days and includes households and commercial stocks, the NFA reported.
The agency is also ready to supply government rice to LGUs thru the Rice Loan program in the event of calamity and/or emergency. (VMHS)
