Rep. De Venecia seeks Expanded Crop Insurance Program
DAGUPAN CITY, July 28 (PNA) -- Rep. Gina de Venecia (4th District, Pangasinan) is set to file a bill seeking the expansion of the Crop Insurance Program to help farmers recover from crop their losses due to the frequent onslaught of calamities, like typhoons, floods and even drought.
A neophyte in Congress, Rep. De Venecia said this will help not only farmers but also fishermen all over the country to bounce back after being set back by the calamities, at which time they are usually left with nothing but despair and frustration.
Noting that the Fourth District of Pangasinan, comprising of Dagupan City, Mangaldan, San Fabian, San Jacinto and Manaoag, is visited yearly by destructive floods, De Venecia said her proposed bill seeking the expansion of the Crop Insurance Program is timely and merits consideration.
"As in the last flood, I saw with my own eyes how corn from San Jacinto were submerged and given up for lost because of the flood and milkfish and prawns in Dagupan washed away to the Lingayen Gulf by rampaging flood waters," she said.
Thus the need for an expanded crop insurance program so farmers can easily get back on their feet and repair their farms and fishponds so they can continue to produce food for the country, said the wife of former seven-time Speaker of the House of Representatives, Jose de Venecia Jr.
After the flood, one can just imagine how the farmers and their families can fend for themselves as they are left with practically nothing in their pockets and therefore face uncertain future, Rep. De Venecia said.
If the proposed bill become a law, farmers planting rice, corn and vegetables, and those raising livestock and fish will be given ample protection from going bankrupt if their crops are destroyed by the calamity or even pest and diseases.
She said under the program, the fund that will be used to rehabilitate damage farmlands and fish ponds will directly come from the government through the Philippine Crop Insurance Corporation.
The present Philippine Crop Insurance Program, said De Venecia, provides only limited coverage to the country's enduring farmers and fishermen, thus the need for its expansion.
Mrs. De Venecia said the proposed bill is an attempt on her part to fulfill her campaign promise to the people of the Fourth District of Pangasinan that livelihood of the people will be one of her priorities.
Livelihood, she said, is part of her agenda which she outlined to the people in the campaign. Her other programs include, health care, education, values formation and environment.
At the same time, Rep. De Venecia vowed to extend her utmost support to the programs of President Benigno Aquino III for good governance, create a graft-free society and snatch the people away from the shackles of poverty and ignorance. (PNA)
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DAGUPAN CITY, July 28 (PNA) -- Rep. Gina de Venecia (4th District, Pangasinan) is set to file a bill seeking the expansion of the Crop Insurance Program to help farmers recover from crop their losses due to the frequent onslaught of calamities, like typhoons, floods and even drought.
A neophyte in Congress, Rep. De Venecia said this will help not only farmers but also fishermen all over the country to bounce back after being set back by the calamities, at which time they are usually left with nothing but despair and frustration.
Noting that the Fourth District of Pangasinan, comprising of Dagupan City, Mangaldan, San Fabian, San Jacinto and Manaoag, is visited yearly by destructive floods, De Venecia said her proposed bill seeking the expansion of the Crop Insurance Program is timely and merits consideration.
"As in the last flood, I saw with my own eyes how corn from San Jacinto were submerged and given up for lost because of the flood and milkfish and prawns in Dagupan washed away to the Lingayen Gulf by rampaging flood waters," she said.
Thus the need for an expanded crop insurance program so farmers can easily get back on their feet and repair their farms and fishponds so they can continue to produce food for the country, said the wife of former seven-time Speaker of the House of Representatives, Jose de Venecia Jr.
After the flood, one can just imagine how the farmers and their families can fend for themselves as they are left with practically nothing in their pockets and therefore face uncertain future, Rep. De Venecia said.
If the proposed bill become a law, farmers planting rice, corn and vegetables, and those raising livestock and fish will be given ample protection from going bankrupt if their crops are destroyed by the calamity or even pest and diseases.
She said under the program, the fund that will be used to rehabilitate damage farmlands and fish ponds will directly come from the government through the Philippine Crop Insurance Corporation.
The present Philippine Crop Insurance Program, said De Venecia, provides only limited coverage to the country's enduring farmers and fishermen, thus the need for its expansion.
Mrs. De Venecia said the proposed bill is an attempt on her part to fulfill her campaign promise to the people of the Fourth District of Pangasinan that livelihood of the people will be one of her priorities.
Livelihood, she said, is part of her agenda which she outlined to the people in the campaign. Her other programs include, health care, education, values formation and environment.
At the same time, Rep. De Venecia vowed to extend her utmost support to the programs of President Benigno Aquino III for good governance, create a graft-free society and snatch the people away from the shackles of poverty and ignorance. (PNA)
http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?idn=0&nid=2&rid=290613
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