Farm-to-market road costing to be overhauled

THE Department of Agriculture (DA) is proposing to implement new cost benchmarks in budgeting for farm-to-market (FMR) roads, a Senator said during the DA’s budget deliberations.

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“There’s going to be a recomputation of the cost,” Senator Francis Pancratius N. Pangilinan, said late Tuesday.

Mr, Pangilinan, who sponsored the DA’s budget in plenary, added that “there will be a menu and a range of costs per kilometer depending on terrain... elevation, location, and slope.”