Monday, August 6, 2012

Pangilinan wants farmers, fishers insured

Senator Francis Pangilinan asked the government to allocate a higher budget in insuring the production of farmers and fisherfolk amid the onslaught of natural calamities.
“There is an urgent need to include in the national budget crop insurance for our farmers, and also insurance for our fisherfolk. Every year we are ravaged by typhoons and the subsequent floods and destruction that go with them,” Pangilinan, chairman of the Senate committee on agriculture and food, said.

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