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NAGA CITY --- Some 80 farmers in Polangui, Albay are now enjoying the benefit of a newly completed pump irrigation system constructed by the National Irrigation Administration (NIA) worth P 13.6 million, which now irrigates 105 hectares of formerly rainfed rice farms.
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NAGA CITY — The National Irrigation Administration (NIA) Bicol regional office has completed 77 projects representing a 74.24 percent physical accomplishment and collected P56.7 million in irrigation fees and other income in 2015.
Director Vicente R. Vicmudo, NIA Bicol regional manager said the 77 completed irrigation projects are located in: Albay (25); Camarines Norte (7); Camarines Sur (17); Masbate (5); and Sorsogon (23).
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LEGAZPI CITY, Feb. 8 (PNA) -- Amid challenges on how to improve and sustain the rice production program in Bicol, the National Irrigation Administration (NIA) has stepped up its irrigation projects to provide water systems to thousands of hectares of rice farms across the region.
The NIA said at least 77 irrigation facilities were built, repaired and maintained, according to Ed Yu, NIA regional spokesperson.
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By: DANNY O. CALLEJA
LEGAZPI CITY, Feb. 2 (PNA) – The National Irrigation Administration (NIA) Bicol regional office considers it a significant improvement from the previous completing nearly 75 percent of all the Php490.2-million irrigation projects assigned to the region last year.
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By: RHAYDZ B. BARCIA
NAGA CITY: The National Irrigation Administration in Bicol has irrigated at least 1,093 hectares of ricelands following the restoration of non-functional irrigation facilities and structures despite of slow release of funds, Ed Yu, NIA public relations officer, told The Manila Times.
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By: SONNY SALES
NAGA City -- The National Irrigation Administration (NIA) Bicol regional office is implementing about P1.050 billion worth of projects for 2016, an increase of 100% from a previous P535 million fund allocation implemented by the agency in 2015.
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By: DANNY O. CALLEJA
Over 85 percent, representing 3,215 hectares of rice farms in Catanduanes, is already covered by government-provided irrigation facilities, leaving only 555 hectares of the island-province’s potential irrigable area needing a stable supply of water, according to the National Irrigation Administration (NIA).
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By: SARAH C. IMPERIAL
NAGA CITY — The National Irrigation Administration (NIA) in Bicol has inaugurated inaugurated the Matagbac Communal Irrigation Project (CIP) in Barangay Matagbac, Milagros, Masbate on July 29. The project was completed on June 10, 2015 at the cost of P18M.
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By: ED G. YU
Director Vicente Vicmudo (center, standing) watches as Mayor Natividad Isabel Magbalon (right) and Richard Gulapo, president of the irrigators association, open the intake gate of the newly completed Matagbac Dam in Milagros, Masbate.
