Report of Fund Utilization and Status of Program/Project/Activity Implementation
2021
- As of June 30, 2021
- As of May 31, 2021
- As of April 30, 2021
- As of March 31, 2021
- As of February 28, 2021
- As of January 29, 2021
2020
- As of December 29, 2020
- As of November 30, 2020
- As of October 30, 2020
- As of September 30, 2020
- As of August 31, 2020
- As of July 31, 2020
- As of July 9, 2020
The newly signed Rice Tariffication Law seeks to lift import restrictions on rice, which the government hopes will lower the price of the staple food to a level more affordable for the Filipinos – a boon to consumers but a bane to rice farmers, farmworkers and the local rice sector as a whole. Rice procurement serves the dual purposes of building rice stocks for the public food grain distribution system and of providing income support to farmers. The law addresses the urgent need to improve the availability of rice in the country, to prevent artificial rice shortage, reduce the prices of rice in the market, and curtail the prevalence of corruption and cartel domination in the rice industry. The law essentially allows for the liberalization of rice imports. It will remove the previously placed quota on rice imports, permitting traders to import a near-unlimited quantity of rice.
Upon assumption to office of Governor Rodolfo T. Albano III in July 2019, his first marching order is to organize a super cooperative that will help the marginalized farmers in the province. A massive cooperative membership orientation was conducted in 32 municipalities and resulted in the birth of “Nagkaisang Magsasaka ng Isabela Agriculture Cooperative” (NMIAC) aka “super cooperative”.
The province of Isabela is not only going to raise the bar in disaster risk reduction and management as the county’s PDRRMC Gawad Kalasag Hall of Fame, but also building the first-ever DRRM complex in the Philippines.
The Isabela DRRM Complex, a pioneering project of PDRRMC Isabela, is now getting bigger with the inauguration and blessing of the Provincial Social Welfare and Development Office (PSWDO) and Provincial Safety Office (PSO) as a monument to the diligence, vigilance and resilience of the Provincial Government of Isabela ‘s leaders and workforce.
Governor Rodito T. Albano III continues to blaze the trail as he led the inauguration and blessing of these buildings as the Isabela DRRM Complex on September 12, 2019. Also inaugurated was the new Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) – Isabela Provincial Office.
