The agriculture sector may be severely battered by Typhoon Quinta and Super Typhoon Rolly, but the country is still seen to end the year with higher palay output of 20 million metric tons (MT). "We hope and pray that in the remaining eight weeks of the year, we will be spared from strong...
A year and three months into his position, Agriculture Secretary William Dar has finally decided to shake things up at the Department of Agriculture (DA) with a major reshuffle followed by a series of appointments. Agriculture Secretary William Dar (Photo credit: https://www.da.gov.ph/) For some of...
With only about two months left in 2020, the Land Bank of the Philippines (LANDBANK) is still targeting to end 2020 with slightly higher amount of loans lent to the agriculture sector. In a statement, LANDBANK expects to further expand its agricultural loan portfolio to P245 billion by the end of...
Despite the latest warning of the Brazilian government to file legal cases against the Philippine government before the World Trade Organization (WTO), the Department of Agriculture (DA) is determined to keep the disputed import ban on poultry meat coming from the South American country. Department...
Senate Majority Leader Juan Miguel Zubiri has raised concerns over the recent appointments at Sugar Regulatory Administration (SRA), which were formalized in separate allegedly falsified documents containing Agriculture Secretary William Dar’s signature without his knowledge. Sen. Juan Miguel...
The one-time financial assistance that the Senate directed the Department of Agriculture (DA) to provide to rice farmers amid the declining prices of palay would not be enough, a group of rice farmers said. (MB file, Keith Bacongco) Federation of Free Farmers (FFF) National Manager Raul Montemayor...
The Department of Agriculture (DA) is eager to get rid of its pro-importation stance, but admitted that there's still a need to import food because local production is still not enough. “We need to take care of our local commodity industry. Local production is the priority, and importation is a...
Millers and traders are blaming the poor quality of unhusked rice being produced by farmers to the current low prices of the staple food. (MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO) This was validated by Agriculture Secretary William Dar, who said consumers now prefer quality rice. In a statement, the Department...
“Rice remains as the staple food of Filipinos. And there is no food that is used as widely as rice,” says Department of Trade and Industry Undersecretary Ruth B. Castelo on the Philippines being the sixth largest rice-consuming countries in the world. After over a year of enactment of the...
Farmers are appealing to Agriculture Secretary William Dar to stop claiming that palay prices are high at P19 per kilogram (/kg), because such dismissiveness is resulting in fear among the country’s main staple food producers that the government will not do anything to resolve their plea. Farm...
Apprehensive that a trade war is now brewing between the Philippines and Brazil over the import ban that the Department of Agriculture (DA) imposed on Brazilian poultry meat, the Philippine Association of Meat Processors Inc. (PAMPI) has strongly urged government to prevent this from happening. In...
Agriculture Secretary William Dar has assured the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), a specialized agency of the United Nations leading global efforts to defeat hunger in developing countries like the Philippines, that there's nothing to worry about the country despite the COVID-19 pandemic....
