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DA to use excess rice tariff for crop diversification,
insurance
Author: DA
Communications Group | 31 July 2020
The Department of Agriculture (DA) plans to use
the excess 2019 rice tariff collections for crop diversification and expanded
crop insurance programs.
“We have been encouraging rice farmers,
particularly those tilling rainfed and marginal lands, to plant other crops
that would generate bigger income, and more importantly instill in them the
need to insure their crops,” said Agriculture Secretary William Dar.
“It is auspicious that we can pursue both
initiatives using the excess tariff collections from imported rice, as provided
under the Rice Tariffication Law (RTL) or RA 11203,” added the DA chief.
The Bureau of Customs (BOC) recently reported
that tariffs collected from imported rice in 2019 totaled P12.1 billion (B).
As per RTL, of the total tariff collected
annually, P10B is automatically appropriated for the provision of farm
machinery and equipment (P5B), certified inbred seeds (P3), credit (P1B), and
training and extension (P1B), while the excess will fund other initiatives to
make Filipino rice farmers more productive and competitive.
These include crop diversification, crop
insurance, agricultural land titling, and other programs as deemed appropriate
by the DA. The Department of Budget and Management (DBM) earlier in the year
has released P10B to the DA to fund the four RCEF program components, which are
already in full swing, secretary Dar said.
“On April 13, 2020, we requested DBM Secretary
Wendel Avisado to release the excess rice tariff collections to fund our crop
diversification program and expanded crop insurance program on rice,” said
Secretary Dar.
With the recent BOC report, farmers’ groups are
clamoring for the immediate release of the excess rice tariff collections
amounting to P2.1B.
Of the amount, the DA is requesting the DBM to
allot P1B for the crop diversification program and P1.1B for the expanded crop
insurance on rice, which will be implemented by the DA’s high-value crops
development program, and DA-Philippine Crop Insurance Corporation (PCIC),
respectively.
RCEF Components Update
Now on its second year, the RCEF program is
vigorously implemented, despite momentary setbacks due to COVID-19 community
quarantine protocols nationwide.
“We were able to devise strategies to ensure
that we continue to roll out the RCEF program components. So far, we are doing
very well through the help of our partner agencies and local government units,”
Secretary Dar said.
“Our initial efforts are paying off, as the
country’s production of palay (rice paddy) reached 4.12 million metric tons
(MMT) in the second quarter of 2020, up by 6.85 percent from the same period
last year, according to the Philippine Statistics Authority,” the DA chief
noted.
To date, the DA-Philippine Rice Research
Institute (PhilRice) reported a total of 2,341,433 bags of high-quality seeds
were delivered to 710,178 farmer-beneficiaries, in 983 municipalities and
cities, in 55 provinces.
The agency also delivered 21,643 bags of seeds
to 3,046 farmer-beneficiaries, tilling 1,772 hectares, in Lanao del Sur and
Maguindanao, in Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM).
Using the P5-B 2019 RCEF farm mechanization
budget, the DA-PhilMech has awarded 2,938 units of farm machinery and equipment
worth P2B to 625 farmers’ cooperatives and associations (FCAs) nationwide.
The second batch of 4,996 units worth P3B is
under bidding process and expected to be completed by July 31, 2020, said DA-PhilMech
Director Baldwin Jallorina. Thereafter, the farm machines and equipment will be
given to the second batch of 1,068 FCAs.
For the 2020 P5-B RCEF farm mechanization
budget, the DA-Philippine Center for Postharvest Development and Mechanization
(PhilMech) has to date validated 2,587 FCA applicants, of which 1,259 FCAs have
been shortlisted and qualified to receive 4,543 units of farm machinery.For his
part, DA-Field Operations Service Director Roy Abaya said they expect to
obligate the total released budget of P10 billion for mechanization before the
year ends, to procure and distribute the targeted 15,000 units of various farm
machines and equipment.
On credit, the Development Bank of the
Philippines (DBP) and Land Bank of the Philippines (LBP) have already lent out
their respective P500-million RCEF credit fund to 5,214 individuals and FCAs.
Both banks are currently disbursing the 2020 RCEF credit fund to qualified
beneficiaries.
Finally, on training and extension, both the
DA-Agricultural Training Institute (ATI) and TESDA have granted a total of
16,245 scholarship slots to farmer field schools, rice machinery operation,
drying, and milling plant servicing, and small engine servicing — from the 2019
fund and 3,733 slots for 2020.The DA-ATI also established 50 farm schools cum
agri-tourism sites across the country.
Together with TESDA, the DA through ATI,
PhilMech, and PhilRice has trained five batches of rice specialists; 86 batches
of trainers; 579 batches of farmers; and 24 batches of seed growers,
inspectors, analysts, and other extension intermediaries — with a total of
18,350 participants.
They also disseminated more than 2.8 million
copies of information and communication materials on rice production and other
crops, and agricultural and livelihood projects, benefiting thousands of
farmers and their families nationwide. ### (Myriam Layaoen, DA StratComms)
Experts challenge farmers
to utilise forthcoming Nanenane exhibitions
01Aug 2020
The Guardian Reporter
The Guardian
Experts challenge farmers to utilise forthcoming Nanenane
exhibitions
AGRICULTURAL and animal husbandry
experts and stakeholders have challenged farmers in the country to attend and
use bravely the forthcoming Nanenane exhibitions to learn and embrace modern
and mechanized practices.
To
fuel a pace of much-needed industrial economy in the country, the experts have
insisted that farmers and livestock keepers in Tanzania must adopt the uses of
modern agricultural and animal husbandry machineries and other best practices
as part to improve their production and productivity.
Moreover, it has been suggested
that applications of modern agricultural and animal husbandry machinery would
also help the country compete effectively in relevant international markets.
Head of the Tanzania Livestock
Research Institute (TALIRI), Dr Eligy Shirima, told The Guardian in an
interview that the institute has well prepared to demonstrate and impart useful
technology to livestock keepers in the course of the envisaged Nanenane
exhibitions.
Some of the technologies,
according to him, will base on livestock improvement and husbandry, pasture and
forages, harvesting and conservation of pasture seeds, small ruminants, dairy
cattle, whereby others will major on milk and meat processing as well as
fattening of livestock (feedlot of livestock).
"And, we’re planning also to
run a brief theoretical session to impart the livestock keepers over the
Multiple Ovulation and Embryo Transfer (MOET) technology which is on pipeline
to be introduced to them later in the future," he briefed.
The TALIRI’ s General Director explained
that the high-technology, MOET, targets to expand multiplication of quality
livestock (dairy and beef) in the country through a massive production of
heifers using high reproductive technological methods.
For his part, branch manager for
Poly Machinery Co. Ltd, Dickson Raymond, said the company has set out to
educate and market key agricultural and husbandry machinery, with an eye to
enable indigenous farmers to yield bumper harvests, but also, meeting required
international standards.
He detailed that the major focus
of the company was to supplement efforts by the fifth phase government in
elevating performance of farmers and crops processors through adoption and uses
of key technologies.
"These machines are useful
in ensuring productivity of produced crops and are also very useful in
curtailing post-harvest losses," he elaborated.
He named some of the machines as
maize sheller, hammer mill, packing machines for spices, rice and flour,
threshers, combined rice mill, platform scale, oil filter, peanut shellers,
incubators, feed processors and pellet feed machines, to mention just a few.
Agriculture minister Josephat
Hasunga said the parent ministry has embarked on a special strategy to educate
and sensitise the farmers in the country to adopt modern technology in order to
cheat hand –hoe cultivation.
He said the fifth phase
government was focusing to improve the performance of the agribusiness sector
within the country, a situation which, according to him, will see Tanzania
benefiting accordingly from the side as well as enabling many farmers
graduating from poverty.
At least 58 percent of Tanzanians
are employed in agriculture and contribute 26 percent of the countries as well
as 30 percent of all foreign currencies.
An Extension irrigation engineer demonstrates multiple inlet
irrigation systems and management during a field day near Stuttgart in 2019.
Special to The Commercial
By Special to The Commercial
Posted Jul 31, 2020 at 2:13 PMUpdated
Jul 31, 2020 at 3:19 PM
Rice will lead off a series of
online commodity-based field days designed to give Arkansans a first look at
the latest University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture research and
extension from the safety of their homes.
The rice field day will be held
at 6 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 20, and will be followed at two-week intervals by corn
Thursday, Sept. 3, soybeans on Thursday, Sept. 17 and cotton Thursday, Oct. 1,
according to a news release.
Social distancing protocols
during the COVID-19 pandemic led the Division of Agriculture to take its annual
agricultural field days online, said Nathan Slaton, associate vice president for
agriculture and assistant director of the Arkansas Agricultural Experiment
Station.
“Field days are an important
activity for the Division of Agriculture,” Slaton said. “They provide our
farmers and other Arkansans an opportunity to hear directly from our scientists
about research and extension programs that are important to them. Visitors also
have an opportunity to ask questions and speak to us about the agricultural
challenges they face and how we can assist them.
“In keeping with physical
distancing precautions during the COVID-19 pandemic, we are moving our field
days online to maintain that face-to-face interaction without the risk of
spreading the virus,” Slaton said.
The rice field day will cover new
varieties, the latest research in hybrid varieties, soil fertility, weed
management, and disease and pest control. The event will open at 6 p.m. with a
welcome from Bob Scott, former director of the Rice Research and Extension
Center and new Division of Agriculture senior associate vice president and director
of the Arkansas Cooperative Extension Service.
Roger Pohlner, chairman of the
Arkansas Rice Research and Promotion Board will give an update on the board’s
activities.
Online presentations by Arkansas
Agricultural Experiment Station researchers and Extension Service specialists
will include:
Weed Control in Rice — Jason
Norsworthy, professor of weed science;
Hybrid Rice Breeding — Ehsan
Shakiba, assistant professor of hybrid rice breeding;
Managing Potassium in Rice —
Trent Roberts, associate professor and extension soil fertility specialist;
New Rice Varieties — Xueyan Sha,
professor and rice breeder.
A live question-and-answer
session following the presentations will give participants an opportunity to
interact with scientists and learn more about how the research applies to their
crops and operations.
The field days are free, but registration is required to
connect. Register for the rice field day at https://bit.ly/ArkRiceOnline.
For more information about the online field days and to register
for the later commodity events, visit the 2020 virtual field day website: https://aaes.uark.edu/field-days.
A recording of the field day will be available on demand from the website after
the live broadcast on Aug. 20.
To learn more about Division of Agriculture research, visit the
Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station website: https://aaes.uark.edu.
Follow the agency on Twitter at @ArkAgResearch and Instagram at
ArkAgResearch.
To learn about Extension Programs in Arkansas, contact a local
Cooperative Extension Service agent, visit www.uaex.edu or follow the agency on Twitter
at @UAEX_edu.
The University of Arkansas System
Division of Agriculture offers all its Extension and Research programs and
services without discrimination.
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DA plans to use excess P2.1-B rice tariff collection
for crop diversification, insurance
August 1, 2020 9:50am
By TED CORDERO, GMA News
The Department of Agriculture (DA) is planning to use the P2.1-billion excess
rice tariff collected in 2019 for crop diversification and expanded crop
insurance programs.
The Bureau of Customs (BOC) has earlier reported that tariffs
collected from imported rice last year amounted to P12.1 billion.
Under the Rice Tariffication law (RTL), of the total tariff to
be collected annually, P10 billion is automatically appropriated for the Rice
Competitiveness Enhancement Fund (RCEF).
The P10-billion RCEF is divided in four components, namely farm
machinery and equipment at P5 billion, certified inbred seeds at P3 billion,
credit at P1 billion, and training and extension at P1 billion.
Meanwhile, the excess will fund other initiatives to make
Filipino rice farmers more productive and competitive.
These include crop diversification, crop insurance, agricultural
land titling, and other programs as deemed appropriate by the DA.
"We have been encouraging rice farmers, particularly those
tilling rainfed and marginal lands, to plant other crops that would generate
bigger income, and more importantly instill in them the need to insure their
crops," Agriculture Secretary William Dar said.
"It is auspicious that we can pursue both initiatives using
the excess tariff collections from imported rice, as provided under the Rice
Tariffication Law (RTL) or RA 11203," Dar said.
The Department of Budget and Management (DBM) earlier in the
year has released P10 billion to the DA to fund the four RCEF program
components, which are already in full swing.
"In April 13, 2020, we requested DBM Secretary
Wendel Avisado to release the excess rice tariff collections to fund our crop
diversification program and expanded crop insurance program on rice," Dar
said.
With the recent BOC report, farmers' groups are clamoring for
the immediate release of the excess rice tariff collections amounting to P2.1
billion.
Of the said excess rice tariff collected, the DA is requesting
the DBM to allot P1 billion for the crop diversification program and P1.1
billion for the expanded crop insurance on rice, which will be implemented by
the department’s high value crops development program, and DA-Philippine Crop
Insurance Corporation (PCIC), respectively.
Now on its second year, the RCEF program is vigorously
implemented despite momentary setbacks due to COVID-19 community quarantine
protocols nationwide.
“We were able to devise strategies to ensure that we continue to
rollout the RCEF program components. So far, we are doing very well through the
help of our partner-agencies and local government units,” Dar said.
"Our initial efforts are paying off, as the country’s
production of palay (rice paddy) reached 4.12 million metric tons (MMT) in the
second quarter of 2020, up by 6.85 percent from the same period last year,
according to the Philippine Statistics Authority," he said.
To date, the DA-PhilRice reported a total of 2,341,433 bags of
high quality seeds were delivered to 710,178 farmer-beneficiaries, in 983
municipalities and cities, in 55 provinces.
The agency also delivered 21,643 bags of seeds to 3,046
farmer-beneficiaries, tilling 1,772 hectares, in Lanao del Sur and Maguindanao,
in Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARRM).
Using the P5-billion 2019 RCEF farm mechanization budget, the
DA-PhilMech has awarded 2,938 units of farm machinery and equipment worth P2B
to 625 farmers’ cooperatives and associations (FCAs) nationwide.
A second batch of 4,996 units worth P3B is under bidding process
and expected to be completed by July 31, 2020, said DA-PhilMech director
Baldwin Jallorina.
Thereafter, the farm machines and equipment will be given to a
second batch of 1,068 FCAs.
For the 2020 P5 billion RCEF farm mechanization budget, the
DA-PhilMech has to date validated 2,587 FCA applicants, of which 1,259 FCAs
have been shortlisted and qualified to receive 4,543 units of farm machinery.
For his part, DA-Field Operations Service Director Roy Abaya
said they expect to obligate the total released budget of P10 billion for
mechanization before the year ends, to procure and distribute the targeted
15,000 units of various farm machines and equipment.
On credit, the Development Bank of the Philippines (DBP) and
Land Bank of the Philippines (LBP) have already lent out their respective
P500-million RCEF credit fund to 5,214 individuals and FCAs. Both banks are
currently disbursing the 2020 RCEF credit fund to qualified beneficiaries.
On training and extension, both the DA-Agricultural Training
Institute (ATI) and TESDA have granted a total of 16,245 scholarship slots to
farmer field schools, rice machinery operation, drying and milling plant
servicing, and small engine servicing —from the 2019 fund and 3,733 slots for
2020.
The DA-ATI also established 50 farm schools cum agri-tourism
sites across the country.
Together with TESDA, the DA through ATI, PhilMech and PhilRice
has trained five batches of rice specialists; 86 batches of trainers; 579
batches of farmers; and 24 batches of seed growers, inspectors, analysts, and
other extension intermediaries —with a total of 18,350 participants.
The agencies also disseminated more than 2.8 million copies of
information and communication materials on rice production and other crops, and
agricultural and livelihood projects, benefiting thousands of farmers and their
families nationwide. —KG, GMA News
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NET) monitors trends in staple food prices in countries vulnerable to food
insecurity. For each FEWS NET country and region, the Price Bulletin provides a
set of charts showing monthly prices in the current marketing year in selected
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average prices, indicative of seasonal trends, and prices in the previous year.
Rice, black beans, maize, and cooking oil are among the
most important food items for poor and middle income households in Haiti. Roots
and tubers are also important, but not currently monitored. All cooking oil is
imported and rice imports account for about 80 percent of national needs. Large
quantities of beans and maize are also imported, but over half of the national
needs are domestically produced. Rice is consumed by even the poorest
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center of the country, is located in one of the most vulnerable areas. Jeremie
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Southeast department, a department particularly exposed to cyclones and known
for having the highest rates of malnutrition in the country.
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