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Four government agencies will collaborate to support farmers as part of President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr.’s Masagana Rice Industry Development Programme, according to the National Irrigation Administration (NIA).

The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH), the Department of Agriculture (DA), the Department of Labour and Employment (DOLE), and the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) collaborated on the Laging Handa program, according to acting NIA administrator Eduardo Guillen during the program’s briefing on Monday.

Guillen stated that the Masagana rice program aims to assist Filipino farmers in adapting to climate change and make their crops more resistant to severe weather.

He asserted that the DPWH’s role in this relationship includes facilitating water management by linking local water-impounding plants to irrigation infrastructure.

“From the NIA’s perspective, we recommend moving our production. For instance, we will teach hybrid production in the dry season because we are aware that the yield of the hybrid is high during this time. We will then determine whether to release water during the rainy season. Thus, those are the systems, according to Guillen.

He said that by grouping all irrigator associations in a municipality, the program aims to create one irrigation cooperative per town.

“So that we can have economies of scale production and to easily deliver the right aid, service, or farm inputs to them,” he continued.

Guillen is hopeful that the government’s goal of at least 97 percent rice self-sufficiency by 2028 would be attained.

“We can give our farmers the proper help or inputs. We know that sometimes our farmers can’t be persuaded to grow hybrid rice since the input is costlier, it requires more water, and it requires more fertilizer,” he said.

Guillen asserted that the government will be able to persuade farmers to conduct hybrid planting during the dry season with the help of seeds and fertilizers provided by the National Rice Programme.

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