The Department of Agriculture (DA) should distribute the fuel subsidy for farmers and fishermen through direct cash assistance instead of discount cards, a party-list group said Tuesday. “How could it be a subsidy when it will only be in a form of discount dispensed to a small portion of the total registered fisherfolk and farmers in the country?” Anakpawis President Ariel Casilao said in a statement. “This brings nothing substantial to the distressed rural sectors because what they need is a full fuel subsidy in a form of direct cash assistance.”

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