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The Philippines has opened a new market for its cacao industry with the first commercial shipment of fermented cacao beans to New Zealand, giving local growers a fresh export outlet as the government pushes to turn high-value crops into bigger sources of farm income and foreign exchange. The 6,000-kilogram shipment, sourced directly from Kapalong, Davao […]
The Department of Agriculture (DA) is advancing its import substitution policy by supporting the investment of Basic Necessity Inc., a Filipino-owned company behind the highly automated and modern enoki mushroom production facility in Silang, Cavite. The first-of-its-kind venture funded purely by the private sector was inspired by President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s call to localize strategic […]
The Fertilizer and Pesticide Authority (FPA) filed criminal charges before the Office of the City Prosecutor in Butuan City, Agusan del Norte against DO’s Asia Chemical Trading Corp. and its president, Viflor M. Dosado, over alleged violations of the country’s fertilizer regulatory law in connection with a government procurement project in Caraga. The complaint accused […]
Plantitos and plantitas, the army of urban gardeners whose ranks blossomed during the pandemic, may soon have credentials to match their green thumbs. What began as a lockdown pastime is being elevated into a nationally recognized profession after the Department of Agriculture (DA) and the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) forged a five-year […]
The Department of Agriculture said that July inflation figures show government supply interventions are helping keep food prices broadly stable, but warned that potential impact of a strong El Niño later this year, and volatile global oil prices threaten that progress by driving up transport, logistics, and farm production costs. “We’re seeing signs that our […]
Durian has perhaps the toughest sales pitch in the fruit business. It smells like hell, tastes like heaven, and somehow transforms skeptics into loyal fans after a single bite. That appears to be exactly what happened in Oman. What began as one Omani entrepreneur’s fascination with Davao’s famed durian six years ago has finally ripened […]
A conversation that began at a trade exhibition in Dubai has culminated in a fresh produce shipment to Saudi Arabia, offering another example of how export promotion can translate into new markets, higher farm incomes, and fresh opportunities for Philippine agriculture. The Department of Agriculture Regional Field Office XI recently led the send-off of a […]
The Department of Agriculture (DA) is turning to biotechnology to strengthen one of the Philippines’ biggest agricultural exports, unveiling the country’s first seaweed bioreactor to produce disease-free planting materials year-round and raise productivity across the industry as part of President Ferdinand Marcos, Jr. sustainable program for agriculture. Installed at the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic […]
The Department of Agriculture (DA) and the Sugar Regulatory Administration (SRA) are shifting into high gear against the red-striped soft scale insect (RSSI), rolling out drones, chemical spraying, financial aid, and long-term biological controls to contain an outbreak threatening the country’s sugar industry, particularly in Negros Island and Western Visayas. The DA has earmarked P35 […]
The Philippine Center for Postharvest Development and Mechanization (PhilMech) accelerated the government’s farm modernization program in the first half of 2026, deploying more than 1,700 farm machines nationwide as the country edges closer to the mechanization levels needed to make rice farming more productive, resilient and profitable. As of June 30, PhilMech had delivered 1,731 […]