A heated exchange ensued between Bayan Muna Representative Carlos Zarate and Agriculture Secretary William Dar and on Tuesday, August 10, after the latter accused the lawmaker of distorting facts on the impact of African swine fever (ASF) outbreak on the local hog industry. Department of...
Farmers are seeking a Senate probe on the rising cost of fertilizer despite the supposed government interventions to bring down farm inputs in the country through the Rice Competitiveness Enhancement Fund (RCEF). (Keith Bacongco/ File photo/ MANILA BULLETIN) In a statement, Kilusang Magbubukid ng...
Department of Agriculture (DA) Secretary William Dar received a nice compliment from President Duterte during late Monday night's "Talk to the Nation" public briefing. Agriculture Secretary William Dar (Photo courtesy of Malacañang) In the pre-recorded briefing on Aug. 9, Dar reported to the...
Officials on Tuesday, August 10, expressed confidence that prices of pork will stabilize after the government allowed more imports into the Philippines. (Keith Bacongco/MANILA BULLETIN File Photo) During the sixth inquiry of the House of Representatives on the spike in the prices of goods,...
Agriculture Secretary William Dar assured that efforts to help the livestock sector, which heavily dragged the performance of the country’s agriculture sector during the first half of the year, recover from the African Swine Fever (ASF) are in full force. Hog raiser Val Ruiz is in disbelief that...
People who are visually challenged or blind are sometimes deprived of agricultural opportunities due to the risks that it entails and the requirements it demands. But in Canada, Rebecca Blaevoet, who was born blind, created her own way towards farming. Getting up close with nature and the...
Somewhere in Zambales lies Beati Firma, more popularly known as Bea Alonzo’s farm, that has been with the Alonzo family for 10 years already. Beati Farm is equipped with a cattle pen, sheepfold, mango and calamansi plantation, rice field, treehouse, fish pond, half-sized basketball court,...
The Philippine agriculture sector output decreased by 1.5 percent in the second quarter this year, its third consecutive quarter of decline, with its staple still reeling from the lingering impact of the African Swine Fever- (ASF). Farm workers thresh rice during a harvest, in the barangay of...
There are a lot of misconceptions about agriculture, one of the most prevalent being the time it takes to go from seed to harvest. Many people base their expectations on garden herbs or leafy vegetables, which don’t take long until harvest, sometimes less than or a bit over a month, such as for...
In San Pedro, Laguna, Randy Maranan, a gardener and retired executive of Bank of the Philippine Islands (BPI), recently shared about his jackfruit ( Artocarpus heterophyllus ) that weighs heavier than the current record holder at the Guinness World Records. Last July 2021, Randy Maranan, a gardener...
Randy Maranan, 62, a former executive of the Bank of the Philippine Islands (BPI), grows food in his backyard garden in San Pedro, Laguna. Randy Maranan, a retired executive of BPI, is also a backyard gardener from San Pedro, Laguna. This longtime hobbyist was influenced by his late father who...
The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) has assured unhampered delivery of fish supply in the National Capital Region (NCR) and nearby provinces while the government implements stricter lockdown measures amid COVID-19 delta variant spread. LIVE CORALS SEIZED – BFAR Central Visayas...
