Caraga InFocus – April 25-May 1, 2020

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Regional News However, if the market participation of NFA rice would increase up to 25% due to high demand from institutional buyers, the NFA supply could last to a month.

rice sufficiency by the end of the first semester based on the consolidated planting report of the LGUs.

Farmers are also assured of available market for their rice products “There is no need to be alarmed; with NFA currently buying palay harvest so far, we have enough supply of NFA from local farmers in the region with a rice,” she said. higher price of P19.00 per kilo, clean and dry. Recent report from Department of Agriculture (DA)-Caraga also assures NFA assures that warehouses all enough supply based on the current over Caraga Region will accommodate harvest season in the region. Caraga interested farmers who would want is expected to produce 315,947 to sell their produce. (DA13-RAFIS/PIA metric tons or an equivalent of 134% Caraga)

NGO donates PPEs to hospitals in VisMin BUTUAN CITY SM Foundation Inc. donated Personal Protective Equipment (PPEs) and medical supplies to hospitals in the Visayas and Mindanao areas.

A total of 21 hospitals benefitted kits. from the 170 million pesos’ worth of N95 and surgical masks, gloves, raincoats, Hospitals in Visayan cities such goggles, as well as alcohol and hygiene as Cebu, Iloilo, Bacolod, Dumaguete, APRIL 25-May 1, 2020 |

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