Senator Imee Marcos has urged the Department of Agriculture — still headed by her brother, the President — to review a recent memorandum order that will limit the type of fertilizer that rice farmers can use.
Signed on April 27, DA Memorandum Order 32 promotes the distribution of yet unnamed biofertilizers to rice farmers nationwide, in place of inorganic urea.
Marcos noted that the El Niño phenomenon’s near certainty this year already poses a threat to rice production, with water allocated for irrigation from Angat Dam scheduled to be cut. She cited that the quoted price of P2,000 per kilo of urea was 33% to 82% more than the prevailing market price of P1,100 to P1,500.
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