Herbs, aside from personal consumption, can also be grown commercially not only because of their culinary and medicinal benefits, but because these are also profit-making plants due to high market demand. From only growing the common vegetables for his personal consumption to learning...
TUGUEGARAO CITY - The Department of Agriculture - Regional Field Office 2- Isabela Experiment Station (DA RFO 02- IES) has rolled-out the conduct of community-based mushroom production hands-on training amid COVID -19 pandemic. In partnership with the Sangguniang Kabataan Council of Barangay...
From its original request of a P280-billion annual budget for next year, the Department of Agriculture (DA) may only end up with P129 billion for 2021, already including the portion of the stimulus package it has been requesting supposedly for this year. Agriculture Secretary William Dar...
SAN FERNANDO CITY, La Union - The Department of Agriculture- Regional Field Office in Cordillera Administrative Region ( (DA-RFO CAR) had launched its maiden Cordillera Regional Corn Derby Field Day to showcase the highly-productive corn varieties in the region. Gerardo Banawa, the DA RFO CAR corn...
The Bureau of Customs (BoC) was told to speed up its audit of rice import transactions in 2019, as well as the collection of unpaid tariffs and penalties from erring importers, so it could look into more recent cases of undervaluation in rice importation. This was after the agency reported that it...
In the culinary industry, sourcing quality ingredients is equally important as the preparation of meals in the kitchen. Knowing this, chefs Jay Angeles and his wife Ana Maria, 31 and 28 respectively, ventured into farming with the intent to cultivate their own produce that they can use for their...
While the decline in the country’s pork production is already a given amid the persistence of African Swine Fever (ASF), the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) released a surprising outlook on the Philippines’ chicken production, which it said might go down despite the assurance of the...
BUTUAN CITY – Amidst COVID-19 pandemic, farmers nowadays need not be at the mercy of private traders offering low buying of palay as the government through the Department of Agriculture-National Food Authority (DA-NFA) intensified its “Palay-Buying” to increase farmers’ income, DA 13...
Exporters and labor groups yesterday scored the Duterte administration on the way they’re handling the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) Plus issue with the EU stressing the offensive statements will not do the country good especially to roughly 600,000 workers who will be affected if the...
Agriculture Secretary William Dar has assured the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), a specialized agency of the United Nations leading global efforts to defeat hunger in developing countries like the Philippines, that there's nothing to worry about the country despite the COVID-19 pandemic....
Both the farmgate and retail prices of the country’s main staple food palay and corn are on a downtrend, which is bad news for farmers but good news for consumers. Latest data from the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) showed that farmgate price of palay fell further during the first week of...
Banana, one of the biggest agricultural export commodities of the country, is now causing problems at the Department of Agriculture (DA), with Agriculture Secretary William Dar starting to seriously worry about something local exporters raised three months ago: “we’re losing our market...
