NIA completes various projs to help farmers in several provinces
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00:00 21 complete solar irrigation projects, check.
00:03 61 HCO pumps distributed in Pagasinan through the Irrigators' Association, check.
00:08 Desilting of the Palico River irrigation system in Nasug, Bubatangas, check.
00:13 Just three of the successful programs initiated by the National Irrigation Authority
00:17 in response to assisting farmers hit hard by a raging El Nino scourge.
00:22 Our Claes Alpardelia details these latest feathers in the cap of the NIA in this story.
00:29 Rice continues to grow in Calinga despite the hot weather.
00:33 This after the National Irrigation Administration completed 21 solar irrigation projects
00:40 in the provinces of Calinga, Abra and Apayao which provides water to farmlands.
00:46 This is in line with the directive of President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr.
00:50 to assist farmers amid the adverse effects of El Nino.
00:55 Using solar energy, 253 hectares of farmland in these areas are now irrigated benefiting 365 farmers.
01:05 The National Irrigation Administration distributed 61 water pumps in Pagasinan
01:12 which the Irrigators' Association received.
01:15 The agency aims to prepare farmers in Pagasinan for the negative effects of El Nino.
01:21 Pagasinan is one of the major rice producers in the Ilocos region.
01:25 The NIA conducted a desalting operation in the Palico River irrigation system in Asubo, Batangas.
01:32 The activity aims to ensure proper water flow in the fields during the prevailing El Nino
01:38 and to prevent water overflow during typhoons.
01:41 The Department of Agriculture has formed a technical working group
01:46 to assist Congress in amending the Anti-Agricultural Smuggling Law.
01:50 The goal is to classify massive illegal imports of agricultural products as economic sabotage.
01:56 Earlier, President Marcos Jr. certified the law as urgent,
02:00 including price manipulation and supply of agricultural products as economic sabotage
02:05 which targets to impose heavier penalties on violations of such law.
02:10 Kuey Ley, Zel Pardil, Liao for the New and Better Republic.