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Agriculture Secretary Francisco Tiu Laurel Jr. commended the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) during the celebration of its 78th founding anniversary, urging officials and staff of the agency to sustain their good work by further scaling up the agency’s delivery of services to efficiently the needs of the country’s fisherfolk. Speaking before employees […]
The Philippine Department of Agriculture (DA) has officially lifted its temporary ban on the importation of domestic and wild birds and their by-products from Japan, following confirmation that the country is now free from highly pathogenic avian influenza. The import ban, originally imposed by the DA in November 2024, also covered poultry meat, day-old chicks, […]
Agriculture Secretary Francisco Tiu Laurel Jr. led various agencies in inspecting 10 container vans flagged on suspicion they are loaded with smuggled agricultural commodities, potentially the biggest single seizure under the newly enacted Anti-Agricultural Economic Sabotage Act. The Bureau of Customs clarified the total of flagged containers van is 52, not 59 as initially reported […]
The Department of Agriculture (DA), in collaboration with the Provincial Government of Guimaras, officially launched the “Benteng Bigas, Meron na!” program expanding the reach of the affordable rice initiative of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. to vulnerable sectors in the island province. A key component of the President’s food security agenda, the program offers rice at […]
Beneficiaries of the Department of Social Welfare and Development’s (DSWD) flagship Walang Gutom Program (WGP) can now purchase rice at just P20 per kilo, following a strategic partnership with the Department of Agriculture (DA) under the Kadiwa ng Pangulo initiative. The collaboration, dubbed “Benteng Bigas, Meron Na sa WGP,” is a key step in President […]
Agriculture Secretary Francisco Tiu Laurel Jr. said smuggled onions intercepted at the Mindanao International Container Terminal in early June will be destroyed as recommended by the Bureau of Plant Industry (BPI) after samples tested positive for Escherichia coli bacteria. The Bureau of Customs, on the request of the DA-Inspectorate and Enforcement office and the BPI, intercepted a […]
The Department of Agriculture (DA) will push through with the reduction of the maximum suggested retail price (MSRP) for imported rice starting July 16, lowering the ceiling to P43 per kilo from the current P45, Agriculture Secretary Francisco Tiu Laurel Jr. said. The MSRP applies specifically to 5 percent broken, the most commonly consumed variety […]
President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. led officials of the Department of Agriculture in launching the Benteng Bigas, Meron Na! program in Bacoor City, a major expansion of the P20 rice initiative aimed at easing the financial burden of millions of Filipino families. Originally planned for pilot testing in the Visayas this year, the P20 rice project […]
The Department of Agriculture (DA) has lifted the temporary ban on the importation of domestic and wild birds, including poultry products, from The Netherlands. The import ban—which also covered poultry meat, day-old chicks, eggs, and semen—was imposed in December after Dutch veterinary authorities confirmed an outbreak of H5 (N untyped) Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) […]
Agriculture Secretary Francisco Tiu Laurel Jr. led the formal inauguration of the Bureau of Plant Industry’s Tissue Culture Laboratory and Biological Control Agent (BioCon) Facility at the Los Baños National Crop Research, Development, and Production Support Center. Construction of the tissue culture facility and the upgrade of the BioCon laboratory in line with the vision […]