MANILA — The average annual income of a number of coffee farmers who participated in Senator Francis Pangilinan’s 2013 Sagip Saka program has doubled, it was learned. In a report to Pangilinan, who is the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture and Food, Sagip Saka Program partner Nestlé Philippines

SEN PANGILINAN: Kinakailangang mag-create ng isang trust fund dito sa coco levy funds na ito. ‘Yung assets lang niya at ‘yung funds combined halos 200B eh in cash and assets. Assets meaning, oil mills, itong mga bank. Napakalaking halaga na lahat ay bunga nung coco levy na galing doon sa

MANILA – The non-passage of the coco levy trust fund law in the last Congress cost P1 billion in foregone interest income, the Presidential Commission on Good Government (PCGG) said in its report to the Senate during the first hearing on the bill seeking to return to Filipino coconut farmers

MANILA – The coco levy fund trust is now P75 billion, the Presidential Commission on Good Government (PCGG) said Thursday at the first hearing on money and assets the Supreme Court ruled was collected from the coconut farmers from 1973 to 1982. The law to be enacted from the measures

Apatnapu’t tatlong taon na ang nakakaraan, o isang taon matapos ideklara ang Martial Law, sinimulang kolektahin ng Marcos Martial Law Administration ang coco levy mula sa mga mahihirap na magniniyog. Base sa mga salaysay ng mga magniniyog nung mga panahon na yon, hindi nila alam na kinokolektahan na pala sila

MANILA – Our farmers will find it hard to survive in a market that might soon be flooded with cheap rice, said Senator Francis “Kiko” Pangilinan on Wednesday as he cautioned against the abolition of the National Food Authority (NFA). “Our top consideration must be our farmers because they will