By Leilanie G. Adriano
Staff Reporter
Vintar, Ilocos Norte—Farmers in this town’s continue to
avail rice and fertilizer subsidy from the local government.
Vintar councilor
Oscar Diza, chairperson of the committee on agriculture said that starting this May, extension workers
from the municipal agriculture office has been visiting farmers in
the barangays to offer rice and fertilizer subsidy to interested
beneficiaries.
Under the
local government’s rice program, each farmer-beneficiary can avail of rice and fertilizer subsidy through a
50-50 sharing scheme.
Vintar,
having the largest land area in the province of Ilocos Norte has been recently awarded as among the 48
top rice producing municipalities and cities in the country along
with Laoag City. Each was awarded with P1 million check.
For Ilocos
Norte, this is now the second time that the province was among to top rice producing-province in the
country since the Department of Agriculture’s launched the
Agri-Pinoy Rice Achievers Awards in 2011 under Pres. Benigno Simeon C. Aquino
III’s term.
The
Agri-Pinoy Rice Achievers Awards aims to encourage the full support and participation of local government
units, irrigators’ associations (IAs), small water impounding systems associations
(SWISAs) and agricultural extension workers (AEWs) and to recognize their
efforts and contribution in prioritizing rice-related projects, using quality
seeds and appropriate technologies for attaining high rice sufficiency in the
Philippines.
The
municipal government of Vintar hopes to sustain the award hence agriculture workers here continue to engage
farmers on the latest hybrid rice varieties and technology
breakthroughs to further boost their productivity.
Aside from
rice, the rich agriculture municipality is also engaged in planting high value crops and livestock.
It was
learned that the one million peso award will be used by the municipality to purchase of a 4x4 vehicle to
service farmers in this town's upland and remote villages.
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