Credit to Author: clopez| Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2019 21:10:39 +0000
The weak El Niño currently causing various crises nationwide has already caused more than P800 million in damage to agriculture in Mindanao alone.
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Read moreCredit to Author: lalos| Date: Fri, 08 Mar 2019 23:25:12 +0000
The country will soon embark on a massive water conservation and watershed protection program, not just because of the drought but to build up its irrigation supply so “we can feed every Filipino” at all times, Agriculture Secretary Emmanuel Piñol said here on Friday.
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Read moreCredit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Fri, 08 Mar 2019 16:10:32 +0000
SAGAY CITY, Negros Occidental—President Duterte has ordered the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) to distribute government lands including those in the mountains to agrarian reform beneficiaries within the remaining three years of his term.
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Read moreCredit to Author: cbibe| Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2019 04:44:25 +0000
About P36 million worth of hybrid palay, corn and assorted vegetable seeds were distributed to storm-hit farmers in Bicol.
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Credit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2019 11:30:11 +0000
Ilocos Norte Gov. Imee Marcos is urging the Department of Agriculture (DA) to suspend the supposed over-importation of pork and chicken meat to allow local raisers to recover their losses.
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Read moreCredit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2019 06:25:37 +0000
Speaker Gloria Macapagal Arroyo has reiterated her call for a P20-billion hike in the proposed 2019 budget of the Department of Agriculture.
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Credit to Author: besguerra| Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2019 04:49:20 +0000
TACLOBAN CITY—A small town in Northern Samar could be uplifted from its poverty situation with the modernization of its agricultural sector.
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Read moreCredit to Author: besguerra| Date: Sun, 06 Jan 2019 21:17:26 +0000
LIBON, Albay — The Department of Agriculture (DA) has earmarked P3.4 billion in financial aid for thousands of farmers who were likely to lose income after their crops were destroyed by Tropical Depression “Usman.”
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Read moreTHE Department of Agriculture (DA) banned the importation of domestic and wild pigs from countries hit by African Swine Fever (ASF), following confirmed growing cases in several provinces in China. In a statement over the weekend, the DA’s Bureau of Animal Industry (BAI) cited confirmed outbreaks of ASF in four provinces in China, with the first case […]
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Amid complaints about the high price of rice, the chair of House appropriations committee called on the Department of Agriculture (DA) on Friday to make sure President Rodrigo Duterte’s marching orders to go after rice hoarders and smugglers would be diligently implemented.
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