NIA: P200B yearly budget needed to ensure food security

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NIA: P200B yearly budget needed to ensure food security
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The National Irrigation Administration on Saturday said it would need at least a P200 billion budget yearly for its irrigation projects to ensure food security in the country.“My estimate for us to be food secure… we need P200 billion yearly for the next 10 years,” NIA Administrator Eddie Guillen said at the Saturday News Forum in Quezon City.

352-trillion proposed national expenditure plan begins.The DBM is targeting to submit to Congress the proposed budget next year a week after the third State of the Nation Address of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. on July 22.For 2024, the NIA received a P70.22-billion allocation under this year’s General Appropriations Act.Meanwhile, Guillen said the four high dams —which stand above 75 meters or with a reservoir storage capacity above 60 million cubic meters— are now up for bidding.

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