Aid to RSSI-hit sugarcane workers to hit P1.9B by yearend, says DSWD

Inquirer.net - Sep 22, 2026

BACOLOD CITY — The Department of Social Welfare and Development’s ongoing distribution of Emergency Cash Transfers (ECT) to small sugarcane farmers and workers whose crops have been destroyed by red-striped soft scale insects (RSSI) in Negros Island will hit P1.9 billion before the end of this year, Social Welfare Secretary Rex Gatchalian said on Tuesday,

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