THE Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) and the Philippine Crop Insurance Corp. (PCIC) have released P211.3 million under the agrarian reform beneficiaries-agricultural insurance program to compensate 19,177 farmer-beneficiaries whose crops were damaged by a series of typhoons and other weather disturbances this year.

DAR Undersecretary Jerry Pacturan said that P196.1 million were paid to 18,351 affected rice farmers, P13.6 million to corn farmers, and P1.64 million to high-value commercial crops growers.

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