Lower House hikes 2025 budget proposal for social services, food security

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00:00House Committee on Appropriations Chairperson Elizaldi Ko has announced the small committee

00:05created by the House of Representatives has increased the 2025 budget proposal

00:10for social services and the country's food security.

00:14Representative Ko said the increase, amounting to over 293 billion pesos,

00:20seeks to address the pressing needs of vulnerable sectors including financially challenged students,

00:26farmers, fisher folk, soldiers, indigent families, and those barely above the poverty threshold.

00:33The House so long highlighted its importance and the new funding is on top of the 591.8

00:40billion pesos already set aside by the Department of Budget and Management or DBM

00:45for cash assistance to impoverished families. He also shared the key enhancements in the 2025

00:52general appropriations bill including the extra 39.8 billion pesos for the DSWDAICS

01:00program designed to offer immediate support to those facing financial hardships.

01:06Senator Tolentino said there should be more collaboration between NMIS and the Department

01:12of Health or DOH, adding that support from the Department of Science and Technology or DOST

01:19is also needed. The lawmaker also suggested an increase in the agency's funding and the

01:25country should strive to become a meat exporter like Chile and Argentina.

01:32The Bureau of Plant Industry or BPI and the Bureau of Customs or BOC seized a container van

01:38holding smuggled white onions worth 3.5 million pesos at the middle of South Harbor.

01:44Based on the investigation, the shipment arrived in the country from China in July

01:48where importation bans on onions was in effect and permits to import the agri-produce were

01:54suspended. This means the entry of imported onions were illegal. The Department of Agriculture or DA

01:59said will not stop pursuing violators. The DA added offenders could be penalized under the new

02:05Anti-Agricultural Economic Sabotage Act.

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