Progressive groups slammed Senator Cynthia Villar after she publicly insinuated that farmers and fisherfolk "do not understand" climate change. (Unsplash) In a public hearing for the proposed 2023 budget for the Department of Agriculture (DA), on Wednesday, Oct. 19, Villar hinted that “farmers...
Alliance of Filipino women, Gabriela, called on President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. to prioritize fundamental agricultural reforms in time for the celebration of the International Day of Rural Women. Members of Gabriela joined the protest action led by peasant women organization AMIHAN at...
There are various ways to resolve the "worsening" food crisis in the Philippines. (Manila Bulletin File Photo) For peasant group Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP) the national government should intentionally adopt policies to address the “worsening” food crisis and hunger problem in the...
A rookie solon in the 19th Congress has filed a House bill (HB) that seeks to establish a National Mariculture Program (NMP) in the Philippines as a means of bolstering food security. Mariculture–a specialized branch of aquaculture–is the cultivation of marine organisms for food and other...
Masipag, a farmer-led network of people’s organizations, condemned the ratification of a resolution that seeks to commercialize the genetically modified golden rice in Nueva Ecija. (Photo courtesy of Masipag / Facebook) Golden rice was initially created in hopes of preventing Vitamin A deficiency...
TACLOBAN CITY – The Department of Agriculture (DA)-Region 8 (Eastern Visayas) has provided P5,000 financial assistance to 1,132 rice farmers from the first and second districts of Northern Samar. Gabriel Banga, Agricultural Program Coordinating Officer (APCO) for Northern Samar, led the...
What if farmers and fishermen in the country had their own pension system? (Mari Gimenez/ Unsplash) AGRI Party-list Rep. Wilbert T. Lee has filed in the 19th Congress House Bill (HB) No. 2420, or the proposed “Agriculture Pension Act”, in a bid to institutionalize a pension and social security...
LAOAG CITY, Ilocos Norte -- Presidential son Ilocos Norte First District Representative Ferdinand Alexander "Sandro" Marcos leads the distribution of agricultural machinery, equipment and other farming interventions worth P26.4 million to farmers on Wednesday, Oct. 5. Photo from DA-Region 1 The...
Nearly 10,000 farmers and fisherfolk in Region 12 were awarded with another tranche of fuel subsidies from the Department of Agriculture (DA). (Photo courtesy of the Department of Agriculture) The DA said a total of 9,837 registered farmers and fisherfolk benefitted from the fuel subsidy program....
A neophyte congressman believes he knows a way to expedite the delivery of "ayuda" or government-sourced aid-slash-subsidy to the agriculture sector. AGRI Party-list Rep. Wilbert T. Lee (Facebook) AGRI Party-list Rep. Wilbert T. Lee is proposing an additional P521 million in the Department of...
A peasant group on Sunday, Oct. 2, once again called on the national government to provide much-needed compensation to cyclone-affected farmers and fishermen. Brgy. Salangan in San Miguel, Bulacan still submerged in flood on Sept. 26, 2022 after the onslaught of Super Typhoon Karding. (MARK...
A farmers’ organization in Senator Ninoy Aquino, Sultan Kudarat has received a newly renovated processing building, complete with equipment and packaging materials from the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR), in a bid to boost the agricultural production and income of agrarian reform...
