Decent and affordable housing units for farmer-beneficiaries of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) will be constructed in 19 sites all over the country. SOON TO RISE--The Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) led the groundbreaking ceremony for a housing project for farmers in Barangay...
Career paths don’t always go down a straight road. While some folks keep following the profession that they started with, others might deviate to a different path and pursue something else entirely. Take, for instance, how several employees from the corporate, governmental, and private...
Filipino farmers, burdened by so many things, including the surge of imports and the prevalence of the pandemic, are not expecting much from President Duterte’s final State of the Nation Address. United Broiler Raisers Association (UBRA) President Bong Inciong said this is the worst time for the...
Many individuals are blessed to have inherited farmlands from their ancestors. This helps them continue what their families have started. Others acquire their own agricultural property to start a farm, optimize productivity, and have full control of the land. Then there are those who prefer...
American agricultural chemical and seed company Corteva Agriscience continues to recognize women farmers in Philippine agriculture through its Pest Management Council of the Philippines (PCMP)-Corteva Empowering Women in Agriculture Award. For this year, Genoveva Estrella V. Antonio, a woman farmer...
The Land Bank of the Philippines (LANDBANK) had so far released more than P13 billion in loans and cash grants to nearly a million farmers and fishermen for this year, the bank's latest data showed. As of May 31, LANDBANK has assisted cumulatively 2.7 million farmers and fishers nationwide, of...
Department of Agriculture (DA) Secretary William Dar assured fisherfolk and farmers in Calabarzon that help will be available to them in the event that Taal Volcano erupts again. Residents of Laurel, Batangas take temporary shelter at Barangay Ticub Elementary School on July 1, 2021. This, after a...
The Philippine Coconut Authority (PCA) is not yet finished drafting the Coconut Farmers and Industry Development Plan (CFIDP), which will serve as the government's ultimate guide in the distribution of the P100-billion coco levy fund and assets. In the meantime, the agency launched the Coconut...
The long wait is over for the 575 agrarian reform beneficiaries (ARBs) in Isabela after they finally received their land titles from the government. LANDLESS NO MORE-- A total of 575 agrarian reform beneficiaries (ARBs) in Isabela after they finally received their land titles from the Department of...
The Department of Finance (DOF) is "strongly objecting" to the appeals for President Duterte to recall his executive order (EO) that reduced the tariffs of imported rice, saying its benefits would outweigh the revenues that the government will lose. (Mark Balmores/MANILA BULLETIN File Photo) The...
About 460,000 Filipino farming families have so far gained higher after adopting genetically modified (GM) corn, a study showed. Based on a recent study entitled “Economic Assessment of GM Corn Use in the Philippines”, the total factor productivity growth of the country’s local corn output...
The Department of Agriculture (DA) will soon distribute to farmers the so-called Interventions Monitoring Card (IMC), which can serve as both an identification card and a cash card. This is in line with the continued updating of the Registry System for Basic Sectors in Agriculture (RSBSA), which is...
