MALASIQUI, April 26 -- The provincial government of La Union has distributed PHP1.7 million worth of agricultural inputs to 40 farmer groups in preparation for the upcoming wet cropping season.

Since April 18, the groups have been given 15 bags of urea (fertilizers), 20 bags of fertilizer called Complete, 10 bags of ammonium phosphate, five bags of muriate of potash, 50 bags of organic fertilizers, and five bottles each of insecticides, herbicides, and fungicides, the La Union Provincial Information Office said Friday.

The beneficiaries are from Bacnotan, Bangar, Luna, San Juan, Agoo, Bauang, Rosario, and Naguilian towns.

Aside from the farm input distribution, La Union Governor Raphaelle Veronica Ortega-David, in a statement Friday, s...