Tag: agricultural

Agricultural training institute in Dinagat Islands receives dev’t grant

      A training institute in Surigao del Norte has received an-almost half-a-million-peso development grant for the upgrading of its facilities. The development grant amounting to P497,850 was provided by MASHAV, Israel’s agency for international development cooperation, to the Sogbohan Agri-Training Institute on Dinagat Islands. MASHAV’s main objective is to help MASHAV course graduates to develop their existing ideas to a level of sustainability and maturity on an economic basis. In SATI, the only agriculture training center in […]

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Giving crop insurance to poor farmers helps reduce poverty—PIDS study

QUEZON CITY, Dec. 16 – Crop insurance can be an effective safety net that can significantly reduce poverty among agricultural households. This is according to a study by state think tank Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS). In a forum held recently at the House of Representatives in Quezon City, PIDS Senior Research Fellow Celia Reyes noted that around half of the households who are engaged in agriculture can be considered as “sometimes poor”. According to […]

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