STUMPED at persistent high rice prices hitting all-time highs in September despite the harvest season, Rep. Sol Aragones of Laguna third district has sought heftier subsidy to agriculture through a bill filed in the House of Representatives.

Citing the country’s low productivity compared to other Asian rice producers and prohibitive cost of fertilizer as bases, Aragones on Wednesday filed House Bill (HB) 3252, also known as the “Rice Fertilizer Subsidy Act of 2013,” which seeks to provide qualified farmer-beneficiaries with 50 percent government subsidy for fertilizer procurement.

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