CITY OF SAN FERNANDO—Ensuring food security for Pampanga residents, Gov. Dennis “Delta” Pineda distributed ₱1.063 billion worth of agricultural assistance and infrastructure to food producers in the province from 2022 to 2024, reports from the Office of the Provincial Agriculturist showed.
In the rice program, the provincial goverrnment handed a total of 73,474 bags of organic fertilizers amounting to ₱25.716 million to 7,346 farmers.
In 2024, 1,000 packs of soil conditioner or ameliorants were distributed to 1,000 farmers, costing ₱1 million. Micro nutrients were distributed in 2023 (3,950 packs worth ₱1,525,000) and in 2024 (5,175 packs worth ₱2,000,000), benefiting a total of 9,125 farmers with an overall allocation of ₱3,525,000.
The Department of Agriculture (DA) funded the distribution of 7,292 bags of ammonium sulfate in 2023 worth ₱9.5 million to 3,646 farmers.
The provincial government gave 1.3 million sampaguita seedlings between 2022 and 2024 in four towns. Schools and walk-clients obtained 7,000 fruit-bearing tree seedlings.
Helping farmers cope with the drought-triggered El Niño, 63 Farmers and Irrigators Associations (FIAs) received ₱19.025 million under the Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office (PDRRMO) Program.
The Rice Farmers Financial Assistance (RFFA), totalling ₱443 million assisted 88,595 rice farmers in three years.
Governor Pineda and Vice Governor Lilia “Nanay” Pineda also obtained ₱110.9 million from the Presidential Assistance for Farmers, Fisherfolks, and their Families (PAFFF) program, distributing this to 11,090 beneficiaries in the province.
For the P360-million Pampanga Food Security Complex that is being built in a government property in Lubao, the provincial government put in P238 million; DA, P50 million; and Philippine Center for Postharvest Development and Mechanization (PhilMech), P72 million.
“Priority ko na tiyakin na sapat at mura ang pagkain ng mga taga-Pampanga (It is my priority to ensure that Pampanga residents have sufficient and affordable food),” the governor said.
