Disparity in income and commodity prices drives Bicol's farmers into debt and worsens poverty amid rising inflation
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Lorenzo Regelias has worked as a farm laborer since he was 16. Now 38 and supporting a family of six, he earns only P150 to P200 per day for grueling labor. He says his family’s daily expenses are around P100 more than his farming income, forcing him to seek additional jobs or borrow from relatives and lenders.
Like Regelias, Expedito Reperesa, a tractor operator working at least nine hours daily to support his wife and three children, says his income of around P400 still falls short of meeting his family’s needs, especially for his children’s education. San Juan is one of the largest rice-producing communities in Oas, with a large farming population facing low wages, according to local sources.
Joen Faustino, the store owner’s son, explained that the high supply during harvest leads to lower prices, forcing farmers to sell their palay at lower rates to avoid spoilage.at 17.50 per kilo, farmers often have to buy locally milled rice for P49 or more per kilo. Regelias said his family frequently has to ration one kilo of rice across all meals due to his limited income.
Reperesa, who has farmed for 20 years, shared the difficulties of farming on someone else’s land, saying it often requires extra effort to make enough for his family. Sometimes we don’t have work because we don’t have our land. That’s why I am not able to take money home to support my family. Help only sometimes reaches us, most of the times not at all,” he said. received landholdings totaling 38 hectares across several barangays.
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