Negrense farmers received P595,340 worth of crop insurance under the Negros First Universal Crop Insurance Program in a turn over ceremony at the Provincial Capitol Social Hall. Governor Alfredo G. Marañon, Jr. led the turn-over of checks to farmers enrolled under the program while P147,000 of the total amount were given as death benefits to the beneficiaries of the farmers, a release from the Capitol said. The beneficiaries were farmers from the cities of Bago, La Carlota and Kabankalan, and from the municipalities of Valladolid, Pulupandan, Pontevedra, San Enrique and Hinigaran. Philippine Crop Insurance Corporation president Atty. Jovy C. Bernabe, said that the NFUCIP is successfully implemented by the provincial government of Negros Occidental and more local government units plan to replicate the province’s crop insurance program in their respective LGUs. Meanwhile, Marañon said that the farmers are always the primary concern of the provincial government through the Office of the Provincial Agriculturist (OPA) as he also hopes that NFUCIP will continue to help the farmers. NFUCIP is on its fourth year of implementation which was created to mitigate the adverse effects of climate change directly affecting Negrense farmers. Based on OPA record, since 2011, the province has been providing funds with a total amount of P12 Million to cover rice crops of farmers such as rice that expanded to corn and sugarcane. Out of the total enrolled farmers, 7,466 had received indemnity claims in the amount of P32,067,585 for 7,730 hectares of damaged rice crops - See more at: http://news.pia.gov.ph/article/view/1031449459242/farmers-get-p500k-worth-of-crop-insurance#sthash.Oa9znVm1.dpuf