BALANGA CITY, Bataan – The National Food Authority has opened a new palay buying station in Bataan to accommodate more farmers who want their produce sold to the grains agency, NFA provincial manager Adelaida Nuestro announced Wednesday.
The new buying station is located in Orion, Bataan in addition to procurement centers in Dinalupihan and Balanga City. The Orion station is more accessible for farmers from the towns of Mariveles and Limay and part of Pilar.
The support price for clean and dry palay is P17 per kilogram plus incentives of P0.20/kg as delivery fee and another P0.20/kg as trucking fee for individual farmers. For cooperatives, there is an additional P0.30/kg as cooperative development incentive fund.
The Bataan agency has procured 37,140 sacks of palay from September to end of December last year. Nuestro said that NFA has also extended assistance to 126 individual local farmers totaling 11,617 sacks for the same period.
The palay were dried through NFA’s two mechanical dryers with a combined capacity of 12 tons per batch and a biomas-fed batch as part of the agency’s post-harvest facility assistance program.
“One of our dryers is the biomas-fed batch type recirculating dryer with a capacity of six tons per batch which is considered user and environment-friendly because it is less dependent on fossil fuel,” Nuestro said.
She explained that the biomas-fed dryer is less costly compared to kerosene-fed mechanical dryer.
The new buying station is located in Orion, Bataan in addition to procurement centers in Dinalupihan and Balanga City. The Orion station is more accessible for farmers from the towns of Mariveles and Limay and part of Pilar.
The support price for clean and dry palay is P17 per kilogram plus incentives of P0.20/kg as delivery fee and another P0.20/kg as trucking fee for individual farmers. For cooperatives, there is an additional P0.30/kg as cooperative development incentive fund.
The Bataan agency has procured 37,140 sacks of palay from September to end of December last year. Nuestro said that NFA has also extended assistance to 126 individual local farmers totaling 11,617 sacks for the same period.
The palay were dried through NFA’s two mechanical dryers with a combined capacity of 12 tons per batch and a biomas-fed batch as part of the agency’s post-harvest facility assistance program.
“One of our dryers is the biomas-fed batch type recirculating dryer with a capacity of six tons per batch which is considered user and environment-friendly because it is less dependent on fossil fuel,” Nuestro said.
She explained that the biomas-fed dryer is less costly compared to kerosene-fed mechanical dryer.
