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(Eagle News)–“Stop the blame game.” Former Agriculture Secretary Manny Piñol had this to say to Agriculture Secretary William Dar, who blamed the outbreak of the African Swine Flu in Luzon to the Piñol-led Department of Agriculture. Dar had said there were already signs of the ASF in May but that the department then kept this information from stakeholders. “To say that I was disappointed by the accusation of a fellow Cabinet official under this administration […]
(Eagle News) – President Rodrigo Duterte recently assigned Agriculture Secretary William Dar as Cabinet Officer for Regional Development and Security (CORDS) in Cordillera Administrative Administration (CAR). Dar said the new post will require him to visit provinces in the Cordillera region regularly. “Given this recent post, I will be regularly coming here not only in Benguet but other provinces of Cordillera to address concerns and issues in the area and make reports to the […]
(Eagle News) – The Department of Agriculture urged the Bohol and Cebu local governments to reconsider their decision to impose a total ban on all hogs and processed pork products from Luzon where some areas have tested positive for African Swine Fever (ASF). Agriculture secretary William Dar particularly asked Cebu governor Gwendolyn Garcia and Bohol governor Arthur Yap to “soften their hearts and allow the transport and trade of ASF-free hogs, pork, pork products […]
(Eagle News) – President Rodrigo Duterte has already approved the release of a P78 million emergency fund that the Department of Agriculture will use to effectively manage, control, and contain the threat of African Swine Fever (ASF) in the country. President Rodrigo Duterte approved the fund during last week’s cabinet meeting. The fund will be used for “biosecurity and quarantine operations, disease monitoring and surveillance, upgrading of laboratories, capacity-building, and other disease control measures” […]
(Eagle News) — More dead pigs suspected to have been infected by the African Swine Fever (ASF) were found dumped in Marikina River, alarming city and health officials. According to the Marikina Veterinart Office, as of 2 p.m., Thursday, the number of dead pigs seen in the river reached 16. They suspected that the dead pigs were from Rizal province where some hogs have been confirmed to have been hit by ASF, and were just […]
(Eagle News) – The Department of Agriculture is still waiting for the result of another laboratory test that will identify how virulent is the type of African Swine Fever virus that hit the country. The initial Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) test on the swine blood samples collected from small backyard farms in Rizal had already confirmed that the pigs which mysteriously died there were positive for African Swine Fever (ASF) The PCR test result from […]
(Eagle News) – Most of the pig blood samples sent by the Department of Agriculture to a laboratory in Europe for testing were found to be positive for African Swine Fever. The blood samples sent to a laboratory in United Kingdom for confirmatory testing were from the pigs that mysteriously died recently in Luzon. Fourteen of the 20 blood samples sent for laboratory testing were positive for ASF, according to the agriculture department in a […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte has directed the National Food Authority (NFA) under the Department of Agriculture (DA) to buy all locally harvested palay (unhusked rice) to help Filipino farmers who are hit by the very low palay prices. “What the solution should be or will be for the Secretary of Agriculture to buy all,” the President said addressing the complaints of rice farmers about the plunging palay prices The prices of palay […]
(Eagle News) – The Department of Agriculture (DA) will still know in two weeks to three months the cause of increased swine deaths in backyard farms in some areas, as the department continues to not disclose these places with unexplained swine deaths. At the same time, the DA assured the public that the pork being sold in the markets and grocery stores are safe as areas within the one kilometer radius of those with […]
(Eagle News)–A fishing vessel carrying 11 people, including seven Filipinos, sank off the waters of Brunei, the Department of Foreign Affairs said on Monday, Aug. 12. The DFA said only two survivors were rescued from the sinking of Radims 2, with search and rescue operations terminated on Sunday. The DFA said it was still monitoring developments. Brunei’s National Search and Rescue Coordination Committee has already asked the Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency for assistance in locating […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte has chosen his next Agriculture Secretary in the person of Dr. William Dar, a noted international agriculturist and a former secretary himself of the Department of Agriculture. Dar holds the distinction of being the first Filipino and Asian to be the Director General of International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT). He served as ICRISAT director general for 15 years, having been selected for the post […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte is eyeing the transfer of Agriculture Secretary Emmanuel Piñol to the Mindanao Development Authority (MinDA), saying the needed someone who knows Mindanao well to help him to coordinate efforts between the national government and the newly formed Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM). “I cannot see anybody in the horizon except Piñol who knows and grew up…was born in Mindanao and grew up there. He is a […]
