CEBU CITY – Nutrition implementors in Cebu Province specifically from the cities of Bogo and Toledo received vegetable seeds from the Department of Agriculture (DA-7) for household and community food production gardens as one way to address malnutrition especially among children in this time...
CEBU CITY – The Department of Agriculture (DA)-Central Visayas through its Agribusiness and Marketing Assistance Division (AMAD) has linked the Dumalan Farmers' Association, Inc. (DUMFA) of Dalaguete, Cebu to the Ulay Agro Industrial Enterprises (UAI), a Cebu City based vegetable trader/buyer in...
Dish garden is a miniature garden concept that originated from Japan where plants are placed in a shallow dish or bowl. In this type of garden, there are stones that represent three things: heaven, earth, and mankind. For Myrna Frago, a landscape designer and owner of Forest Wood Garden, it serves...
Typhoon Quinta flattens a banana plantation in Dayap, Pola, Oriental Mindoro when it made its fifth landfall before heading to the West Philippine Sea on Oct. 25, 2020. Energy Secretary Alfonso G. Cusi, in his concurrent capacity as Cabinet Officer for Regional Development and Security (CORDS) for...
Smart Communications, Inc. (Smart) is now promoting sustainable livelihood by supporting AgriTalk, a program of the Department of Agriculture's (DA) Agricultural Training Institute (ATI) and Agriculture Magazine. The virtual training series, made in collaboration with DA, ATI, Agriculture...
Healthy soils are the foundation of habitats of living beings. They lay the groundwork, so to speak, in producing food, clean water, and other needs of life on earth. But in the last decade, deterioration and degradation of soil have been a cause of concern and even alarm, since it threatens food...
The Department of Agriculture (DA) will withdraw nearly P800 million from its Quick Response Fund (QRF) to assist farmers, fishermen, and livestock raisers that were severely affected by Typhoon Quinta. Typhoon Quinta flattens a banana plantation in Dayap, Pola, Oriental Mindoro when it made its...
The Department of Agriculture (DA) will attempt to facilitate the shipment of as much as 30,000 hogs from Visayas and Mindanao to Luzon in order to address what it calls “artificial” price increase of pork being experienced now in Metro Manila. The weekly shipments will commence next week...
Typhoon Quinta already left the Philippine Area of Responsibility (PAR), but its damage to the agriculture sector is still rising. As of late Wednesday, Quinta's damage and losses on agri-fisheries, particularly in Regions I, IV-A, V and VI, already amounted to a total of P401.73 million, data from...
ILOILO CITY— According to the Department of Agriculture (DA-6), a P20-million project funded by the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) is aiding rice farmers in Panay Island to ride out the impact of coronavirus disease (COVID-19). DA-6 Western Visayas Regional Director Remelyn...
With fall armyworm (FAW) continuously infesting farms across the country, corn farmers are facing a bigger problem than declining farm-gate prices. The infestation’s estimated loss in the economy? Around P20 billion. A statement showed that the government now sees a P20-billion economic...
With only about two months left in 2020, the Land Bank of the Philippines (LANDBANK) is still targeting to end 2020 with slightly higher amount of loans lent to the agriculture sector. In a statement, LANDBANK expects to further expand its agricultural loan portfolio to P245 billion by the end of...
