Under the Agriculture & Fisheries Modernization Act and the Rice Tariffication Law, the Department of Agriculture (DA) is mandated to facilitate the registration of all farmers, farm workers, and fisherfolks into the Registry System for Basic Sector in Agriculture (RSBSA) for them to be eligible to...
From a city girl to a farm girl, that’s how 27-year-old Monica Salinas, or TikTok’s Northeast Farm Girl, happily found herself after years of living in the urban world. It all started in 2020, Salinas was asked a favor by MJ, her brother overseas, to trim the grapevines in their farm in Anao,...
Amidst a rice field in Barangay Bucanan, Magalang, Pampanga, a fruit farm can be found where tourists can visit and experience picking mulberries and grapes. The farm is managed by Michael Miranda, who is also a rice farmer and a farm machinery operator. *Michael Miranda, owner and manager of...
The Philippines has secured approval for a [grant](https://www.greenclimate.fund/project/fp201)Â of US$26.3 million from the Green Climate Fund (GCF) to increase the resilience of rural agriculture in climate-vulnerable areas and to transform the country's agriculture sector towards climate...
Agents of the intelligence and investigation service of the Bureau of Customs (BOC) at the Manila International Container Port (MIC) seized around P120 million worth of poultry and seafood products believed to have been smuggled into the country in a series of raids on warehouses in Navota City....
By Henrylito D. Tacio Michael Bassey Johnson, the man behind *The Book of Maxims, Poems and Anecdotes*, has written something about mango, the Philippines’ fruit icon. “If you wait for the mango fruits to fall, you’d be wasting your time while others are learning how to climb the tree.”...
President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. reiterated that the only way to keep Kadiwa centers in the country operational is to boost local production of agricultural goods. “Production. Isa lang ang sagot diyan kasi kung hindi kaya ng production, mag-i-import tayo. And sa lahat ng iniiwasan natin...
TACLOBAN CITY – The Department of Agriculture in Region 8 (Eastern Visayas) distributed cash assistance to over 2,100 farmers in Northern Samar from March 15 to 16. Beneficiaries from the municipalities of San Roque, Bobon, Silvino Lobos, Mapanas, and Victoria were given P5,000 each. The money was...
Aside from the surging prices of agricultural goods, structural matters were identified by President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. as among the challenges faced by the Department of Agriculture (DA) in its mission to ensure food security in the country. Marcos, who heads the DA in a concurrent...
By Oliver Samson While strong winds are bad for most crops, the pili tree is prompted to bear more fruits when shaken by strapping air currents, said Santos Borbe, Jr, a farmer from Polangui, Albay. Pili trees thrive in Bicol even without human intervention. They grow in the region despite the...
More than three million farmers have been benefiting from the country's coconut expansion project which earns $2 billion every year, an official of the Philippine Coconut Authority (PCA) disclosed on Tuesday, March 14. In a “Laging Handa” briefing, PCA Deputy Administrator Roel Rosales...
Through its Aquaculture Research and Development Division (ARDD), the Department of Agriculture-National Fisheries Research and Development Institute (DA-NFRDI) is now implementing a research project to validate Central Luzon State University's (CLSU’s) aquashading technology. The technology aims...
