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DA Spending P10 B to Boost Sugar Production
The Philippine Star
|March 29, 2025
The Department of Agriculture (DA) plans to invest almost P10 billion to construct solar-powered irrigation systems and rejuvenate soils to boost sugar production by 180,000 metric tons and reduce the country's imports.
The DA is proposing to spend P8 billion for a three-year program that will build 16,000 units of small-scale solar irrigation systems with shallow tube wells, Sugar Regulatory Administration (SRA) administrator and CEO Pablo Luis Azcona said.
The project will be able to cover around 160,000 hectares of sugarcane farms nationwide, more than a third of the total planted area of 388,000 hectares, Azcona said.
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