Tag: extension services

DA URGED: BRING EXTENSION SERVICES TO PROVINCES

Post author By Romelo Caparas
Post date August 5, 2025
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Senator Kiko Pangillinan, who now chairs the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Food, and Agrarian Reform, is pushing for the strengthening and expansion of the Department of Agriculture’s (DA) extension services to reach farmers in the provinces. Pangilinan lamented that currently, farmers couldn’t access the DA’s services because the agency only has regional offices. “Ang extension […]

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MERGE DA, DAR TO BETTER SERVE FARMERS – PANGILINAN

Post author By Romelo Caparas
Post date November 13, 2020
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Rightsizing should be done to better manage extension services for farmers and fisher folk, and a way to do it is to merge the Department of Agriculture (DA) and the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR). Senator Kiko Pangilinan made the proposal recently as the Senate began its plenary deliberations for the 2021 national budget. “The […]

Tags DA, DAR, extension services, farmers, merger, Senator Pangilinan