Is the Philippines capable of meeting its own need for fish and seafood? Atty. Asis Perez, former Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) Director, said yes. Perez spoke at the Philippine Chamber of Agriculture and Food, Inc. (PCAFI) roundtable on August 5, 2022 as a representative of the...
After President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. reportedly shut down a proposal to import 300,000 metric tons (MT) of sugar, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Rep. Joey Salceda offered some solutions to the country’s domestic sugar supply issue. Read:...
It has been over a decade since Leonard Co, one of the Philippines’ most esteemed botanists, was fatally shot while conducting research and collecting seedlings of endangered trees in Kananga, Leyte. It was on November 15, 2010, when Co, along with forest ranger Sofronio Cortez and farmer Julius...
The Philippines lags behind its ASEAN neighbors in terms of agriculture, and this includes agricultural exports. At the second Philippine Chamber of Food and Agriculture Inc. roundtable, Philip Young, president of Global Food Solutions, an exported of ube, cassava, and kamote, among others and Ram...
Before Jocelyn Mamar became a farmer, she was a highly successful palengke (wet market) entrepreneur. Jocelyn Mamar is the owner of John and Marga Nursery Farm, which has farms in Davao del Sur, Cavite, and Bacolod. While the farms grow coconut, mango, coffee, bananas, durian, mangosteen,...
The Provincial Government of Bulacan (PGB) received a special citation from the Department of Agriculture-Philippine Rice Research Institute (DA-PhilRice) for its implementation of the Rice Competitiveness Enhancement Fund (RCEF)- Seed and Extension Programs for the 2022 Wet Season. The recognition...
Inside the campus of the University of the Philippines Visayas (UPV) in Miagao, Iloilo, a terrestrial orchid, Habenaria gibsonii var. foetida Blatt. & McCann, thrives. Researcher Maria Celia D. Malay found the flowering Habenaria gibsonii var. foetida plants while hiking on campus. This...
Photo by Lisa Fotios from Pexels. Israeli designers came up with a 3D-printing machine that could print seeded soil. The machine was unveiled as part of Jerusalem Design Week 2022. The designers presented an installation that featured several structures built by their robot. With proper...
The Philippine Chamber of Agriculture and Food, Inc. (PCAFI) held its second roundtable this year, with PCAFI President Danny Fausto once again putting forth the concerns of the agriculture industry, which are especially urgent given the looming food crisis amid the country’s food insecurity....
The value of production in agriculture and fisheries decreased in the second quarter of 2022, a report released by the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) disclosed on Monday, Aug. 8. (Photo courtesy of the Department of Agriculture) While the production of crops and fisheries dropped, PSA...
The country’s agriculture output shrank in the second-quarter, but the contraction moved at a much slower pace compared with the previous year, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) said. The PSA reported on Monday, Aug. 8, that the value of production of the local farm sector, which accounts...
The Philippines is home to a wide variety of crops and livestock, many of them disappearing from cultivation due to modernization. A handful of them are listed in the Ark of Taste, the Slow Food Movement’s catalog of endangered foods from across the globe. There are currently 65 Filipino food...
