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The Department of Agriculture (DA) will formulate a five-year development roadmap for the country’s poultry and livestock industry in cooperation with poultry and livestock raisers following a dialogue between Agriculture Secretary Manny Piñol and poultry raisers. Piñol said the DA also committed to help poultry farmers market their poultry products with a program to ensure […]
Mango growers, private stakeholders, and local chief executives convened at the Sison Auditorium in Lingayen, Pangasinan, to discuss issues within the mango industry and collaboratively craft a five-year roadmap towards Philippine mango development. In his message, Agriculture Secretary Manny Piñol encouraged mango growers “to take this opportunity to look out for possible technology development […]
The Department of Agriculture (DA) has given P10 million worth of Survival and Recovery (SURE) loans to displaced farmers in besieged Marawi who were affected by the battle between extremist terrorists that took over parts of the city more than two months ago and the government’s security forces. Agriculture Secretary Emmanuel Piñol said the […]
Senator Loren Legarda said that the goal of the Paris Agreement to limit global warming to well below 2°C and possibly not more than 1.5°C is crucial in ensuring human survival, thus, the need for urgent action from developed and developing countries alike. Speaking at the Multi-Stakeholder Consultation for the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC) […]
The Department of Agriculture (DA) will be focusing on three major priorities – technology, financing and marketing. Piñol stressed this during the farmers and fishers forum held in Mariveles, Bataan. The Agriculture Secretary, who assumed his post less than a year ago, has been going around the country campaigning for the advancement of Philippine […]
As part of a national campaign to rehabilitate fish sources across the country, the Department of Agriculture (DA) and the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) launched on June 19, 2017 the Balik Sigla sa Lawa at Ilog (BASIL) project. The project is the DA’s counter-strategy, which comes after the directive of President Rodrigo […]
Saying access to cheap credit will improve the agriculture sector’s productivity, Senator Cynthia Villar vowed to look into the effectiveness of the law providing farmers and fisherfolks access to cheap credit. Villar, chair of the Committee on Agriculture and Food, presided over the hearing to look into Republic Act 10000 or the Agri Agra […]