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THE National Irrigation Administration-Regional Office 3 in Central Luzon has increased the subsidy given to farmer-leaders of irrigator groups from Nueva Ecija and Aurora in the operation of irrigation systems from P150 to P500 per hectare in every cropping season.<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cSalamat at patuloy na nabibiyayaan ang mga magsasaka tulad po ng dagdag sa IMT, ito po ay malaking tulong po sa aming pangangailangan. Nagpapasalamat po ang pederasyon ng Nueva Ecija sa mga taga-NIA sa patuloy n\u2019yo pong pagtangkilik at pagbibigay ng mga proyekto sa amin,\u201d said Federation president Gregorio T. Alcantara during the turnover of completed projects and contract-signing activities under the Aurora-Nueva Ecija Irrigation Management Office of the NIA-Region 3-Central Luzon held at the Division 3 Events Center inside the UPRIIS compound on Friday.<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n NIA-OIC Deputy Administrator for Engineering and Operations and concurrent NIA-Region III head Engr. Josephine B. Salazar led the activity that was also graced by farmer-leaders of 19 irrigator associations and representatives from partner agencies such as the Department of Agriculture-Regional Field Office 3, the National Food Authority (NFA), and the Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice).<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Among the highlights of the event were the turnover of 19 completed projects that were finished in 2022 and 2023 to 19 irrigator associations having 1,637 farmer-beneficiaries, and the contract-signing of the NIA\u2019s Modified Irrigation Management Transfer (IMT), which provides an increase in the farmer\u2019s operations and maintenance (O&M) subsidy from P150 to P500 per hectare for every cropping season.<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Salazar said the IMT provides for a \u201cwhole of government\u201d strategy to strengthen farmer control over water and irrigation infrastructure to achieve desired high farm outputs.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The completed projects for 2022 included the Bibiclat CIP, Cabileo CIP, Paitan CIP, Simimbaan SWIP, Agupalo Este CIP, Canaan East Capisungan PIP, Casilagan SWIP, Lusok CIP, Danasa CIP, Salwit SWIP, San Antonio CIP, Popolon CIP, Betania CIP, Binumbunan CIP, Cordero CIS while for 2023, these were the Sagaba CIS, San Agustin CIS, Ted Ted Ti Ling-It CIS, and Bulalakay CIS.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" THE National Irrigation Administration-Regional Office 3 in Central Luzon has increased the subsidy given to farmer-leaders of irrigator groups from Nueva Ecija and Aurora in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4254,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/cl-farmers-subsidy.jpg",720,377,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/cl-farmers-subsidy-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/cl-farmers-subsidy-300x157.jpg",300,157,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/cl-farmers-subsidy.jpg",640,335,false],"large":["https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/cl-farmers-subsidy.jpg",640,335,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/cl-farmers-subsidy.jpg",720,377,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/cl-farmers-subsidy.jpg",720,377,false],"kreeti-slider-full":["https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/cl-farmers-subsidy.jpg",720,377,false],"kreeti-featured":["https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/cl-farmers-subsidy.jpg",720,377,false],"kreeti-medium":["https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/cl-farmers-subsidy.jpg",720,377,false],"kreeti-medium-square":["https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/cl-farmers-subsidy-350x350.jpg",350,350,true]},"author_info":{"info":["admin"]},"category_info":"Provincial<\/a>","tag_info":"Provincial","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4250"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4250"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4252,"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4250\/revisions\/4252"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}