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QUEZON CITY, Sep. 29 — Member economies of the Asia-Pacific economic region forged a stronger public-private partnership which seeks to reduce, if not eliminate, food losses in the supply chain of fishery and livestock, in one of the meetings of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Food Security Week. During a seminar organized by the Ministry of Agriculture of the Chinese Taipei and the Ministry for Primary Industries of New Zealand with the Philippine Center for […]
Laoag City, Ilocos Norte, Sept. 24 – A lawmaker advised the farmers from the provinces in Luzon area to adjust their cropping season as a practical solution to mitigate the emerging effect of the El Niño phenomenon. Senator Cynthia Villar, the current chairperson of the Senate Committee on Agriculture and Food, made her call when she attended the Luzon wide congress of the agriculture and fishery councils (AFC) held recently in one Vittoria hotel in […]
QUEZON CITY, Sep. 22 — The Department of Agriculture is set to implement a financing model that further improves credit access for small farmers participating in the agribusiness value chain. The implementation of the program was signaled by the turnover of P40-million worth of funds by the DA’s Agricultural Credit Policy Council (ACPC) to the Philippine Postal Savings Bank, Inc. (Postbank) on September 18, 2015. Agriculture Secretary and ACPC Chair Proceso Alcala had likewise signed the […]
QUEZON CITY, Sep. 16 — In preparation for the onslaught of the El Niño phenomenon, the Bureau of Soils and Water Management (BSWM) of the Department of Agriculture (DA) has conducted island-wide consultation and planning workshops with Small-Scale Irrigation Associations (SWISAs). The workshops were held to identify possible and alternative measures to mitigate the impact of drought, to determine the capability needs of the SWISAs and to find ways on how the members can participate in […]
MANILA, Sep. 6 (Eagle News) –The Department of Agriculture (DA) has a comprehensive El Niño response plan in case the weather disturbance affects the country. Communication Secretary Herminio Coloma Jr., said this as he tried to dispel public fears on an impending severe drought, In an interview over government-run radip station DZRB, Coloma said DA’s El Niño action plan has two features: production support and water management. The plan also includes an information and communication program or […]
QUEZON CITY, Aug. 27 — The Department of Agriculture (DA) said on Tuesday that the prices of pork, potato and eggplant prices has dropped while the prices of fish and certain vegetables went up following the onslaught of typhoon Ineng. Assistant Secretary for Agribusiness Leandro Gazmin said that based on the price and supply monitoring conducted by the DA’s Agribusiness and Marketing Assistance Service (AMAS), pork kasim is now sold at about P10/kg, lower than […]
QUEZON CITY, July 22 – The production and consumption of other food staples that are eaten in combination with rice is also a priority of the Aquino administration, aside from increasing rice production to achieve food security, the Department of Agriculture said Tuesday. Under its Food Staples Sufficiency Program (FSSP), the DA has equally focused on increased productivity for white corn, cassava, sweet potato (camote), adlai and plantain (saba banana), thereby improving access of Filipinos […]
HULYO 16 (Agila Probinsya) — Dahil sa nararanasang tagtuyot, iminungkahi ng Department of Agriculture (DA) sa mga magsasaka sa Aurora na magtanim ng gulay na hindi matakaw sa tubig.
MANILA, Philippines, July 14 (Eagle News) — With the “habagat” affecting the delivery of poultry products, the price of said products recorded an increase, according to the Department of Agriculture (DA). (Eagle News Service Jay Paul Carlos, Jericho Morales, MRFaith Bonalos) https://youtu.be/u5vknpjsTI4
MANILA (Eagle News) — The United States has recognized the Philippines for registering the greatest increase in palay production for the last five years. This was according to Agriculture Secretary Prospero Alcala, although he admitted that the country would still have to continue importing rice. He said the national rice sufficiency level was still at 96 to 97 percent, and that the country had still not achieved the 100 percent rice self-sufficiency level targeted way […]
QUEZON City, Philippines, June 25 (Eagle News) — The Department of Agriculture (DA) is planning to give import permit for businessmen who plan to import ginger as a solution to the current ginger shortage. (Eagle News Service Jay Paul Carlos, Jericho Morales, MRFaith Bonalos) https://youtu.be/rTMGP_cYgtk
JUNE 25 — The Department of Agriculture (DA), through the Bureau of Plant Industry (BPI), has intensified measures to control the spread of witches’ broom disease, which could endanger the country’s growing cassava industry if not proactively addressed. A bacteria-like organism called phytoplasma causes the witches’ broom disease.[1] The disease reduces cassava root starch content, hence reducing yield value and farmers’ income. Symptoms not noticeable The BPI said that the witches’ broom disease is systemic […]
