As fertilizer prices soar, President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.'s agriculture department sees a government-to-government purchase as one way to bring cheaper fertilizer to farmers.
MANILA, Philippines – Amid a presidential directive to increase rice production and make the commodity more affordable to Filipinos, the Department of Agriculture is looking to make an “urgent” purchase of fertilizer from another government – a move intended to give farmers access to cheaper fertilizer than what is currently available.
Aside from prices, the DA is taking into consideration the quality of fertilizer the country can provide and how logistically efficient it would be to transport the purchased fertilizer from the source country. She could not yet say how much the administration plans to spend on the government-to-government purchase.
When fertilizer gets expensive, small rice farmers tend to scrimp on how much they put in their rice fields, which leads to a lower production of rice.low usage of fertilizer had led to a 6.8% decrease in yield in the first semester.
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