TO culminate this year’s Farmers and Fisherfolk Month in Western Visayas, the Department of Agriculture (DA) delivered 21,246 bags of urea fertilizer to the rice farmers of Dumangas, Iloilo under the Rice Resiliency Project (RRP) on Thursday.
The fertilizer support complements the distribution of inbred certified seeds and hybrid seeds under the three RRP sub-projects including the Rice Competitiveness Enhancement Fund (RCEF)-Enhanced, Expanded Inbred, and the Expanded Hybrid.
Farmer beneficiaries need to present empty sacks of their purchased fertilizer and official receipt upon claiming their fertilizer subsidy from the
Municipal Agriculture Office.
A total of 4,023 bags [50 kilograms per bag] of fertilizers are allotted under the RCEF-Enhanced and another 4,023 bags under the Expanded Inbred for good seeds or home-saved seeds.
Meanwhile, 13,200 bags of urea fertilizer are intended for hybrid rice farmers.
Dumangas has 4,255.30 hectares irrigated areas out of 6,173.75 hectares total physical rice areas making it feasible to plant hybrid.
Hybrid seeds allotted for the town will be delivered next week, according to DA Western Visayas Regional Executive Director Remelyn Recoter.
Dumangas town logs the highest palay production in Iloilo with 69,878.31 metric tons from 6,173.75 hectares rice areas in 2019.
With 5.68 metric tons average yield, Dumangas ranks second with the
highest rice production volume next to Bago City in Negros Occidental in the whole Western Visayas as per LGU production report. (PR)