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The 4Ps program now operates in 17 regions, 79 provinces and 1,484 municipalities and 143 key cities covering 4,090,667 household beneficiaries as of June 25, 2014. The measure, which institutionalizes the 4Ps cash transfer program, was principally authored by Senator Leila de Lima , [ 4 ] and co-authored by Senator Risa Hontiveros . [ 5 ]
The New Agrarian Emancipation Act, officially designated as Republic Act No. 11953, is a bill passed by the 19th Congress of the Philippines and signed by President Bongbong Marcos on July 7, 2023. The law frees more than 600,000 farmers from debt.
The department is currently led by the secretary of agriculture, nominated by the president of the Philippines and confirmed by the Commission on Appointments. The secretary is a member of the Cabinet. The current secretary is Francisco Tiu Laurel Jr., who assumed office on November 3, 2023.
The Manila Teachers Savings and Loan Association is a Filipino political party and associated financial lending organization which holds party-list representation in the House of Representatives of the Philippines. Outside its role in the Congress, it also offers loans to salary loans to public schools.
In 2003, 15 years into the program, studies funded by the United Nations Development Programme, Asian Development Bank, Food and Agriculture Organization, European Union, and the Philippine Government had shown that poverty incidence among program beneficiaries declined from 47.6 to 45.2 percent, while increasing among their non-participating ...
PDAP used to have a large organic rice farming program in Valencia, Bukidnon in the Philippines but it was subsequently scaled down significantly. Beethoven Morales (2004) explained that it was a challenge for most NGOs in Bukidnon to establish sufficient income-generating activities that will allow them to be self-sustaining. [ 6 ]
Land Bank of the Philippines (LBP; often referred to simply as LandBank), is a government-owned bank in the Philippines with a special focus on serving the needs of farmers and fishermen. While it provides the services of a universal bank , it is officially classified as a "specialized government bank" with a universal banking license.
The Disbursement Acceleration Program in the Philippines is a "special" budget allocated to accelerate or hasten a government project without Congress or Senate's approval. This replaces the traditional pork barrel , the Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF), after the Pork barrel scam was uncovered in 2013.