Sugar workers in Batangas affected by the local sugar mill’s sudden closure on Tuesday received financial aid after a series of talks between sugar workers and the House of Representatives.
Speaker Martin Romualdez led the distribution of aid to some 800 sugar farmers in Batangas whose livelihood were adversely affected by the closure of the largest sugar mill in the province. He also vowed to help find a long-term solution to the plight of all affected sectors.
Romualdez said the lower chamber coordinated with the Department of Social Welfare and Development and secured through the department’s Assistance to Individuals in Crisis Situation program P10,000 worth of assistance for every affected sugar farmers. He noted that the closure of CADPI, also the largest sugar mill in the whole Region 4 and the second largest in Luzon, had stripped 12,000 farmworkers of regular jobs; placed the farms of more than 8,772 farmers at risk, and displaced 125 mill workers.
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