The National Food Authority in Eastern Visayas has procured 18,830 bags of palay from local farmers this cropping season, nearly triple than the volume purchased in the same harvest season last year.
Bacolod City shares its best practices in responding to the COVID-19 crisis with some LGUs in Negros Occidental and other provinces in Western Visayas.
Secretary Michael Lloyd Dino is pushing for the institutionalization of the Emergency Operations Center in various localities in the Visayas to equip them with strategies in the fight against COVID-19.
The City of Kabankalan in Negros Occidental has granted a PHP10-million fertilizer assistance to rice farmers to ensure food security in the southern locality.
The Basilica Minore del Sto. Niño has relaxed its COVID-19 safety measures and now allows devotees aged 15 to 65 years old inside the church's premises.