Legazpi City, Aug. 4 -- More than 131,000 rice farmers across six provinces in the Bicol region have received PHP7,000 cash aid from the Department of Agriculture.

In a report Monday, Lovella Guarin, chief of the Regional Agriculture and Fisheries Information Section of DA-5, said the aid came from the Rice Farmers Financial Assistance (RFFA), totaling approximately PHP917 million for the entire region.

The beneficiaries include farmers from Albay: 30,219 farmers (PHP211.53 million); Camarines Norte: 10,099 farmers (PHP70.69 million); Camarines Sur: 45,803 farmers (PHP320.62 million); Catanduanes: 6,567 farmers (PHP45.9 million); Masbate: 17,034 farmers (PHP119.23 million), and Sorsogon: 21,351 farmers (PHP149.45 million)

Guarin added ...