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Displaced workers to staff KADIWA stores to support P20 rice program
June 17, 2025
|Business World Philippines
THE Department of Agriculture (DA) will hire beneficiaries of a displaced-worker program to staff government-subsidized Kadiwa stores in support of the expansion of the P20-per-kilo rice program.
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The DA and the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) on Monday signed a memorandum of agreement (MoA) on the hiring of the workers, who are registered with the DOLE's TUPAD program (Tulong Panghanapbuhay sa Ating Disadvantaged/Displaced Workers).
The sale of the subsidized P20 rice is being expanded to about 15 million vulnerable households or 60 million people, in 2026.
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