Credit to Author: lalos| Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2019 07:59:48 +0000
Senator Sonny Angara on Thursday called for government’s immediate assistance to farmers heavily affected by the prevailing El Niño phenomenon.
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Credit to Author: lalos| Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2019 23:30:38 +0000
A total of about P420 million in insurance claims across the country is ready for immediate payout to farmers who have lost their crops to the dry spell caused by the El Niño phenomenon, the Philippine Crop Insurance Corp. (PCIC) said on Saturday.
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Credit to Author: Jessica Scott-Reid| Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2019 18:54:09 +0000
While I was personally attacked by some farmers, many attempted to actually teach me something.
Read moreCredit to Author: lalos| Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2019 21:15:27 +0000
Once considered a bane in farming, swamp eels are now making rice farmers earn a little extra income.
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Credit to Author: hniitsu| Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2019 03:38:43 +0000
Two farmers were killed on Monday night in two separate shooting incidents in Pangasinan province, police said.
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Read moreCredit to Author: jvicente| Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2019 08:27:57 +0000
Senator Francis Pangilinan urged the full implementation of the rice tarrification law to benefit local farmers.
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Read moreCredit to Author: lalos| Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2019 06:45:41 +0000
About 100 landless farmers gathered in front of the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) to call on President Duterte to order the distribution of land to beneficiaries.
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MELBOURNE, Australia — Public fears about sewing needles concealed inside strawberries on supermarket shelves have spread across Australia and New Zealand as growers turn to metal detectors and the Australian government launched an investigation to restore public confidence in the popular fruit.
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An alliance of coconut farmer organizations in the country is seeking urgent government intervention to help farmers stem the plunging price of coconut, which, they said, has caused added sufferings on their livelihood that is already hurt by the rising prices of goods.
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PAGADIAN CITY – Senator Cynthia Villar on Saturday pushed for the promotion of agricultural courses in the provinces as a way of upgrading the situation of farmers and to assure food security in the country.
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