President Marcos has urged the National Irrigation Administration (NIA) to modernize and rehabilitate the Magat Dam, an infrastructure that he described as the key to agricultural development in Isabela and the Cagayan Valley region. NIA Photo Marcos said this during the inauguration of the...
President Marcos said that the Cabaruan Solar-Powered Pump Irrigation Project (SPIP) in Isabela is only one of the first undertakings in the government's list of projects that aim to boost the country's agriculture sector. President Ferdinand ‘Bongbong’ Marcos Jr. (RTVM screenshot) Marcos said...
As palay production declined by 0.3 percent in the first three months of this year, an economist from the University of Santo Tomas (UST) shared how technological advances can procure a steady and high rice output for the future. In recent data from the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA), the...
The National Irrigation Administration (NIA) assured that selling rice would not compete with traders, and instead would assist them. In a statement, the NIA shared its plan to sell a kilo of rice for P29 by August, through the Contract Farming program. This initiative would allow farmers to...
The Marcos administration has already completed some 4,700 flood control projects from July 2022 to 2024, with 4,000 others currently being implemented, Palace press briefer Daphne Oseña-Paez said on Tuesday, May 7. During a Palace press briefing after a sectoral meeting with President...
President Marcos underscored the role of water security in peace and development as he inaugurated the Malitubog-Maridagao Irrigation Project Stage II (MMIP II) on Monday, April 29 in Cotabato province, which will benefit more than 4,000 farmers. President Ferdinand 'Bongbong' Marcos Jr....
BANTAY, Ilocos Sur – A minor drowned in an irrigation canal in Barangay Capangdanan here. THE body of a minor who drowned in an irrigation canal is recovered in Bantay, Ilocos Sur. (MDRRMO Dur-as Bantay FB) Police Lt. Reynaldo Renon of the Bantay police station said the boy was reported missing...
The impact of the El Niño phenomenon, which brings extreme heat and drought to the country, may ease up by the end of May, the Task Force El Niño said on Wednesday, April 24. Dry spell and drought brought about by El Niño continue to ravage a farmland in Occidental Mindoro (Photo from the...
More irrigations must be put up in several municipalities in Occidental Mindoro to boost agricultural production amid the impacts of El Niño, President Marcos said. President Ferdinand 'Bongbong' Marcos Jr. inspects the extent of crop damage at an onion and rice field that were badly hit by...
Senator Sherwin Gatchalian is calling on the government to invest in agriculture modernization and irrigation development in a bid to further improve the country’s food security amid steady population growth. “Unless the government embarks on a comprehensive modernization program, it would be...
Repower Energy Development Corp. (REDC) and the National Irrigation Administration (NIA) signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) for possible hydropower facilities in Quezon, Camarines Sur, and Bohol. In a statement, REDC said that the hydropower unit of Pure Energy Holdings Corp. has received...
TAYUM, Abra – A two-year-old child drowned in an irrigation canal in Barangay Gaddani here on Sunday, March 17. Police Executive Master Sergeant Rholen Emherson S. Bigornia, duty officer of the Tayum police station, identified the victim as Prince Wayne German. The boy was last seen when his...
