A pro-farmer congressman said he expects the P30-billion increase in this year's agriculture sector budget to translate to improved services for local farmers, which would in turn help keep food prices down. Onions at a Quezon City supermarket (Ellson Quismorio/ MANILA BULLETIN) AGRI Party-list...
After successive contractions in the first six-months, farm output grew in the third-quarter of the year as production of crops, livestock, and poultry recovered, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) reported. Data released by the PSA on Wednesday, Nov. 9, showed that the value of production...
AVANT GARDENER Yvette Tan The agriculture sector is in a weird state. Not enough Filipinos are worried about the declining industry and its implications on the nation’s food security, yet everyone can feel — and complains about — the rising prices and lack of supply of certain food items,...
AVANT GARDENER Yvette Tan With the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), the largest trade agreement involving many countries since the establishment of the World Trade Organization (WTO), due to be brought up in the Senate soon, the question remains: will the agriculture sector be...
President Ferdinand “Bongbong” R. Marcos Jr. on Tuesday, July 5, stressed the importance of strengthening the country’s agriculture sector, saying the administration cannot do many things unless it is fortified. (Keith Bacongco / Manila Bulletin File Photo) “Food supply is such an important...
Aspiring president Vice President Leni Robredo is pushing for the modernization of agriculture in the country which is poised to bring various improvements in the sector. (Photo courtesy of the Department of Agriculture) Robredo articulated during the KBP Presidential Candidates Forum on Friday,...
The Department of Agriculture (DA) is set to release P1.3-billion worth of interventions as the agriculture sector reels from the impact of Typhoon Odette, the strongest typhoon to hit the Philippines this year. In a statement, the DA said it has at least P1.35 billion worth of readily-available...
State-owned Landbank of the Philippines said that financing support to improve and construct farm infrastructure and post harvest facilities accounted for the bulk of its loans to the agriculture sector. In a report to Finance Secretary Carlos G. Dominguez III, Landbank said that about P94.01...
The Department of Agriculture (DA) has already given up on its ambitious growth target of 2 percent for the agriculture sector, but it has remained hopeful that the sector could still pull off a growth of at least below 1 percent following four consecutive quarters of decline. 44673 In a briefing,...
The output of the country’s agriculture sector has declined further during the third quarter of the year after almost all sub-sectors, mainly livestock and crops, suffered from lower output from July to September. But Agriculture Secretary William Dar said the Philippine government will "work...
Partido Reporma chairman and standard bearer Sen. Panfilo “Ping” Lacson has called on the Filipino youth to consider agriculture-related courses to boost the country’s agricultural development, which has been taking a back seat in favor of blue and white collared jobs. Lacson said students,...
Several farmers' groups have joined forces and raised the need to overhaul the Philippine agriculture sector, demanding the next administration to "transform" the industry for "food security, job creation, and balanced growth". In a joint statement, Bayanihan sa Agrikultura, Federation of Free...
