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(Eagle News) — The Department of Agriculture (DA) said that it will be giving agricultural aid to 112 Leyteaños who were among the first batch of beneficiaries returning to their homeland under the Balik Probinsya, Balik Pag-asa program (BP2) of the government. Agriculture Secretary William Dar said that the DA will provide farm inputs and implements to those who availed of the government’s Balik Probinsya program, if they wish to try agriculture and fishery […]
(Eagle News) — Starting this month, the Socialist Republic of Vietnam decided to resume rice exports to the Philippines and other members of ASEAN to help countries needing additional rice supplies amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Agriculture Secretary William Dar said this was a very welcome development. The Department of Agriculture said this would enable the region to maintain adequate food supply and cope with the COVID-19 pandemic. “We welcome the decision by Vietnam to […]
(Eagle News) –Consumers can now order their needed fruits, vegetables and other agricultural produce online and direct from the farmers and agripreneurs themselves. This was made possible after the Department of Agriculture (DA) and private sector partners launched on May 4, the “eKadiwa,” an online marketing platform that directly links producers and agripreneurs to consumers. It’s an innovation introduced by the DA amid the COVID-19 pandemic that will help both farmers and other agricultural […]
(Eagle News) – The Department of Agriculture said that the country’s rice “supply remains on the optimistic side” as it projects a 94-day buffer stock by the end of December 2020. Agriculture Secretary William Dar said that by the end of the year, the country will have a rice inventory of 3.27 million metric tons, as he assures the public that there is enough food amid the COVID-19 pandemic. “That means we will have […]
(Eagle News) — The Department of Agriculture is implementing nationwide “Plant. Plant, Plant Program” to ensure adequate food supply amid the COVID-19 crisis. The aggressive implementation of the program starts this week and is also called the “Ahon Lahat Pagkaing Sapat Laban sa COVID-19” that will benefit farmers, fishermen and consumers nationwide, according to agriculture secretary William Dar. He said that the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID) had […]
(Eagle News) – The Department of Agriculture and the Quezon City local government launched a city-wide urban agriculture program with the signing of a memorandum of agreement on Thursday, April 16, 2020. “With the partnership, the DA and the QC government will enable residents to produce their own vegetables that are safe, nutritious, and readily available,” said Agriculture Secretary William Dar. Under the agreement, the DA through its Agricultural Training Institute (ATI) with support […]
(Eagle News) – The Philippine government thanked the government of South Korea for its recent donation of 950 metric tons of rice for the thousands of Filipino families adversely affected by natural disasters and calamities last year. The South Korean government recently donated 950 metric tons (MT) of rice to the Philippines, particularly for the thousands of Filipino families adversely affected by natural disasters and calamities last year. “On behalf of President Rodrigo Roa […]
(Eagle News) – The Department of Agriculture will be providing more mobile agricultural markets through the “Kadiwa ni Ani at Kita” in Metro Manila so that more people in the Philippine capital would have fresh farm and fishery products at affordable prices. “We will open more this week to benefit more urban families, and at the same time provide our Luzon farmers and fishers direct market and thus earn for their respective products,” said […]
(Eagle News) – Agriculture Secretary William Dar assured that there is enough rice in Metro Manila to meet the Philippine capital’s requirements amid the enhanced community quarantine in place due to the coronavirus crisis. Dar said that the National Food Authority (NFA) as of Friday, March 20, has already completed the prepositioning of rice stocks which are ready for delivery and disbursement in strategic areas in Metro Manila. The agriculture chief also assured that there […]
(Eagle News) – Malacanang announced an automatic price freeze nationwide on basic commodities including food, agricultural products, medicines, and the petroleum products, and warned hoarders and violators that they would be charged criminally. In a press briefing late Wednesday night, March 19, Cabinet secretary Karlo Nograles said that this nationwide price freeze is being implemented immediately amid the state of calamity declared on March 16 by President Rodrigo Duterte because of the coronavirus situation […]
(Eagle News) – In anticipation of a quarantine scenario, the Department of Agriculture said that it has already directed the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources to ensure faster movement and unloading of fish products at six major ports in Metro Manila. Agriculture Secretary William Dar said that fishing activities in Manila Bay, as well as deliveries of fish products from nearby provinces, would remain unimpeded. “There is no restriction in fishing activities while ports […]
(Eagle News) – There is adequate food supply for everybody so there is no need to panic, the Department of Agriculture said as it mobilized all regional offices to ensure food supplies are regularly moved to Metro Manila. Agriculture Secretary William Dar gave this assurance to the consuming public as the month-long community quarantine started in the nation’s capital. The DA said that the rice supply in the country is good for nine, and […]
