DUMAGUETE CITY, Feb. 8 -- The local government unit (LGU) of Canlaon City in Negros Oriental province has allocated PHP 1-million subsidy to its rice farmers as top-up to the palay buying price of the National Food Authority (NFA).

Benilda Fidel, NFA-Negros Oriental manager, said the check will be delivered to her office this Thursday so that procurement of palay from that upland city can commence at the earliest time.

More than 31,000 rice farmers in Canlaon City will benefit from this subsidy, given under the national government's Palay Marketing Assistance for Legislators and Local Government Units or PALLGU.

The amount allocated cannot be specified or quantified for each farmer as the subsidy depends on the beneficiary's volume of ...