{"id":16924,"date":"2025-10-10T05:26:19","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T21:26:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/?p=16924"},"modified":"2025-10-10T05:28:29","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T21:28:29","slug":"gatchalian-exposes-p10-3b-overpricing-of-farm-to-market-roads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/2025\/10\/10\/gatchalian-exposes-p10-3b-overpricing-of-farm-to-market-roads\/","title":{"rendered":"GATCHALIAN EXPOSES P10.3B OVERPRICING OF FARM-TO-MARKET ROADS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>THE government lost P10.3 billion and nearly 700 kilometers of farm-to-market roads due to overpricing from 2023 to 2024, Senator Win Gatchalian flagged.<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>During the Senate Committee on Finance&#8217;s hearing on the proposed 2026 budget of the Department of Agriculture (DA), Gatchalian revealed that the ten most overpriced farm-to-market roads in 2024 cost as much as P348,432 per meter.<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>According to Agriculture Secretary Francisco Tiu Laurel, farm-to-market roads can cost as low as P10,000 per meter.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>An analysis by Gatchalian&#8217;s office also found that in fiscal years 2023 and 2024, Regions V, VIII, and III had the highest number of projects priced at P30,000 or higher per meter.<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Kung walang assurance na maayos \u2018yung trabaho ng farm-to-market roads in 2026, tatanggalin na lang naming lahat itong pondo at ilalagay namin sa iba,&#8221; said Gatchalian, chairman of the Senate Committee on Finance.<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Gatchalian also floated the idea of transferring the construction of farm-to-market roads from the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) to the DA, but sought assurances from the DA that there will be no more overpricing.<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE government lost P10.3 billion and nearly 700 kilometers of farm-to-market roads due to overpricing from 2023 to 2024, Senator Win Gatchalian flagged. During the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16927,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16924"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16924"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16926,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16924\/revisions\/16926"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}