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(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte has signed into law the Free Irrigation Service Act, which exempts farmers who own 8 hectares of land or less from paying irrigation fees, and allows for the writing off of their loans and penalties to the National Irrigation Administration. Under the act signed into law on Feb. 2, the farmers are covered by the exemption if the water in question is derived from “national irrigation systems and communal irrigation systems […]
QUEZON City, Philippines (Eagle News) — Farmers and farmer cooperatives will no longer need to pay their outstanding fees for irrigation services provided by the National Irrigation Authority if the proposal made by Senator Win Gatchalian is passed in the Senate. Senator Gatchalian made the proposal to support the poor farmer-tillers. The Senator also said that the government should help the farmers, especially those who do not have their own land, as they are the backbone […]
