IATF adopts recommendations by agriculture dept.

April 4, 2020

The Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF) adopted the recommendations made by the Department of Agriculture (DA) during its meeting on Friday night.

Cabinet Secretary Karlo Nograles said these recommendations include  the “augmentation of the existing budget for the “Ahon Lahat, Pagkaing Sapat” (ALPAS) program of the DA, to facilitate the early planting season specifically in areas with irrigation”.

He said “the recognition of the authority to the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) to issue quarantine accreditation passes to Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries (ARBs), to continue supplying agricultural products to critical areas affected by the enhance community quarantine” was also recommended by Department of Agriculture. 

Nograles said “the granting of additional budget to the Philippine International Trading Corporation (PITC) to facilitate government-to-government negotiations in import 300,000 metric tons of rice to the country” was also approved by the IATF.

He said the “continued inclusion of rice farmers listed under the DA-FSRF as beneficiaries of the Department of Social Welfare and Development Social Amelioration Program” was also adopted by the task force. Robina Asido/DMS