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UniTeam senatorial aspirant Harry Roque (Contributed photo) MANILA - UniTeam senatorial aspirant Harry Roque is encouraging farmers grappling with high production costs, soaring fuel prices, and low farmgate prices to consider investing in cash crops to improve their earning capacity. A cash crop and livestock farmer himself, Roque said rice and other staple farmers could also venture into cash crop farming to increase their income streams and ultimately raise their standard of living. He said the buying price for palay (unhusked rice) has become unstable after the rice tariffication law repealed the non-tariff protective measures and the National Food Authority's role in rice importation. The former presidential spokesman said rice farmers run the risk of impoverishment unless they diversify towards crops that offer bigger yields and faster harvest. Based on 2018 data from the Philippine Statistics Authority, Filipino farmers posted a poverty incidence of 31.6 percent, the highest

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