Farmers expressed their fear of wider agricultural trade deficit amid the further declining rate of peso. (Manila Bulletin File Photo) Peso, on Tuesday, Sept. 6, reached a new all-time low record and sank to P57 against the US dollar. The further declining rate of peso, according to peasant group...
QUEZON -- Almost P3,891,000 worth of financial assistance and fuel discount cards have been granted by the Department of Agriculture IV-Calabarzon (DA-4A) to farmers and fishermen of Mauban and Pagbilao towns through the Rice Competitiveness Enhancement Fund-Rice Farmers Financial Assistance...
SAN FERNANDO CITY, La Union -- Some 1,329 corn farmer-beneficiaries from various municipalities in Pangasinan each received P3,000 worth of fuel discount cards, totaling P3,987,000 under the Department of Agriculture fuel discount program. Photo via Zaldy Comanda Atty. Jennilyn Dawayan, regional...
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY -- An association of farmers from one of the hinterland barangays in Cagayan de Oro City has expressed its concern over the high price of fertilizers. The Agricultural Productivity Operations Office of Cagayan de Oro disperses a total of 500 Cacao seedlings for the farmers in...
BAGUIO CITY – Ten mini multi-tillers were distributed to different farmer group beneficiaries in Benguet, Ifugao, and Mt. Province during the ‘Turn-over Ceremony of Organic Agriculture Interventions’ of the Regional Organic Agriculture Program (ROAP) on Tuesday, Aug. 23. Photo via Zaldy...
LAGUNA – The Enhanced Partnership Against Hunger and Poverty (EPAHP) program of the National Irrigation Administration Region IV-A signed a memorandum of understanding with government agencies in line with the government’s initiative in addressing key challenges on social and economic growth,...
With local agricultural development seemingly more important than ever, Negros Oriental 3rd district Rep. Arnulfo Teves Jr. is prodding the national government to allocate at least P1 billion to every agriculture-based congressional district for the construction and repair of farm-to-market roads....
To further spur rural development, the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) has urged farmers, cooperatives, and entrepreneurs to establish more farm schools in their respective localities. TESDA TESDA Deputy Director General Aniceto D. Bertiz III shared that increased...
The Federation of Free Farmers (FFF) asked President and concurrent Agriculture Secretary Ferdinand R. Marcos, Jr. to order Land Bank of the Philippines (LBP) to release P1 billion from the Rice Farmers Financial Assistance (RFFA) program to rice farmers. In a statement, FFF said the amount should...
BAKUN, Benguet – The body of a farmer who went missing in Bakun river was found on Saturday morning, Aug. 20, four days after he was swept away by the river’s raging waters in Likew Section, Sinacbat, Barangay Poblacion, Bakun in this province. Photo from Zaldy Comanda The Municipal Disaster...
Over P7.6 million worth of farm machines has been distributed by the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) to nine agrarian reform beneficiaries organizations (ARBOs) in Ilocos Norte in a bid to improve their yield and income generation. Hauling trucks (Photo courtesy of DAR) The distributed farm...
SAN FERNANDO CITY, La Union – Fourteen qualified farmers' associations and cooperatives in Ilocos Sur received 19 farm machineries and equipment and 920 agricultural supplies from the Department of Agriculture-Regional Field Office-1 on Thursday, August 11. Photo via Zaldy Comanda A total of 939...
