President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. awarded Php8.8 million worth of rice production technologies to farmers’ cooperatives and associations (FCAs) during the Presidential Assistance for Farmers, Fisherfolk, and Families event in Palawan on July 18, 2024.

Courtesy of the Rice Competitiveness Enhancement Fund (RCEF) Mechanization Program, the President granted the FCAs a total of six technologies, including two units each of four-wheel drive tractors, walk-behind mechanical transplanters, and rice combine harvesters.

The beneficiaries included the Maligaya May Pag-asa Irrigators Association Inc., Caguisan Linamen of Narra Irrigators Association Inc., Cabayugan Farmers’ Association, Tagumpay P4MP Farmers’ Association, Jorizan Malatgao Ris Irrigators Association Inc., and Ibato-Iraan Farmers’ Irrigators Association Inc. (FB, DA-PhilMech, July 22, 2024)