At Least 9K Jobs Up For Grabs At Labor Day Fair In Western Visayas

Higit 9,000 trabaho ang nakalaan sa Labor Day Fair. Mainam na pagkakataon para sa mga career shifters sa Western Visayas.

Tacloban Mangrove Park Eyed As Urban Green Space

Ang mga plano para sa urban green space sa Paraiso ay layuning pataasin ang kaasalan sa kapaligiran at pagtugon sa hamon ng climate change sa Tacloban.

Eastern Visayas Pushes For Muslim-Friendly Tourism

Kasama ang DOT, ang Eastern Visayas ay naglalayong maging kaakit-akit na destinasyon para sa mga Muslim sa pamamagitan ng halal culinary offerings.

New Law Giving Free Legal Aid To MUPs Signed

Sa ilalim ng bagong batas, mas pinapangangalagaan ang mga karapatan ng mga MUP. Tinatampok ng administrasyon ang kanilang tapat na serbisyo.

Full Insurance Coverage For Farmers Gains Traction In House

The House of Representatives has approved the second reading of the bill aiming to offer financial assistance to farmers affected by natural calamities.

Full Insurance Coverage For Farmers Gains Traction In House

3
3

How do you feel about this story?

Like
Love
Haha
Wow
Sad
Angry

A bill providing immediate financial assistance to agrarian reform beneficiaries (ARB) in the event of natural calamities to make their losses more bearable hurdled second reading approval at the House of Representatives.

During Wednesday’s plenary session, the chamber passed via voice vote House Bill 6680, which aims to mitigate the effects of natural calamities by providing full insurance coverage to qualified farmers.

The amendment to Republic Act 9700 states that full insurance coverage shall be provided to all qualified agrarian reform beneficiaries as defined in RA 10000 of the “Agri-Agra Law” and who are actually tilling the land.

Full crop insurance coverage shall be granted to farmer-beneficiaries whose losses include those resulting from natural calamities such as typhoon, flood, drought, earthquake and volcanic eruption.

Full crop insurance coverage shall also be provided to all qualified agrarian reform beneficiaries whose crops are destroyed due to plant diseases caused by pathogens, bacteria, fungi, viruses, virus-like pathogens and other similar foreign bodies.

Compensable losses include as well pest infestation caused by nematodes, insects, mites and spiders, millipedes and centipedes, symphylans, slugs and snails, sow bugs and pill bugs, parasitic higher plants and other parasites.

The loss of life and/or injury to the qualified agrarian reform beneficiary due to accident shall also be covered.

Crops that are covered by full insurance are palay, corn, sugarcane, high value crops, coconut, tobacco, aquaculture, livestock and non-crop agricultural assets.

The measure mandates the secretaries of the Department of Agrarian Reform and the Department of Agriculture to immediately include in their departments’ programs the operationalization of the Act and the initial funding shall be charged against the allocated funds by the General Appropriations Act to the Philippine Crop Insurance Corporation for the Registry System for Basic Sectors in Agriculture. (PNA)