BUSINESS TALK By PCCI CHAIRMAN WILLIAM S. CO The Philippines’s corn production needs to double to meet local demand and ensure that it will be unaffected if there is a global supply imbalance. With the current situation, the country is in a very vulnerable situation that when global corn supply...
House Ways and Means chair and Albay 2nd district Rep. Joey Salceda on Tuesday, Feb. 7, warned that prices of fish and eggs will “remain elevated” throughout the year although he assured that inflation from February onwards will be lower compared to January. Eggs and fish (Pixabay/MANILA...
Local farmers and livestock workers will soon benefit from the sustainable corn development program to be launched by the Department of Agriculture (DA) as part of the government's food security commitment. Corn (Photo courtesy of Pixabay) In a bid to ensure sufficient food grains, the agriculture...
Senator Cynthia A. Villar has sought congressional approval of her bill seeking to develop the corn industry, noting its importance in poultry, especially the egg-laying type layers. Villar said Senate Bill 120, or An Act to Develop and Promote the Yellow Corn Industry, to Enhance Availability of...
The Senate Committee on Agriculture, Food and Agrarian Reform on Wednesday, January 11 started tackling the bill that seeks to promote and improve the country’s yellow corn industry. Sen. Cynthia Villar, chairperson of the Senate agriculture panel, noted how local production of the crop is on an...
The agricultural damage caused by Typhoon Paeng has ballooned to P3.41 billion, according to the latest assessment released by the Department of Agriculture (DA) on Tuesday, Nov. 8. Photo: PCG The agency said the areas covered in the estimate are: Cordillera Administrative Region, Cagayan Valley,...
The country’s palay and corn output likely increased in the third-quarter this year based on standing crops as of August, according to a report released by the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA). Data from the PSA on Tuesday, Nov. 1 showed that the estimated production of palay and corn from...
The agricultural damage caused by Super Typhoon Karding has skyrocketed to P2.02 billion, Department of Agriculture (DAR) Undersecretary Domingo F. Panganiban disclosed on Thursday, Sept 29. Agriculture Usec. Domingo F. Panganiban (Screenshot taken from Laging Handa FB Live) He noted that the...
SAN FERNANDO CITY, La Union -- Some 1,329 corn farmer-beneficiaries from various municipalities in Pangasinan each received P3,000 worth of fuel discount cards, totaling P3,987,000 under the Department of Agriculture fuel discount program. Photo via Zaldy Comanda Atty. Jennilyn Dawayan, regional...
More than 126,000 corn farmers and fisherfolk have been allocated with the government's Fuel Discount for Farmers and Fisherfolk Program (FDFFP), the Department of Agriculture (DA) said on Tuesday, Aug. 9. The program rolled out in March this year and is now nearing the realization of its goal of...
Photo by Wolfmann from Wikimedia Commons . There is this rare phenomenon wherein seeds germinate while they are still enclosed in or attached to their parent fruit. The result may look unpleasant in some instances. A tomato fruit going through this may appear as if shoots are growing from inside...
As the prices of food continue to go up, President and Agriculture Secretary Ferdinand “Bongbong” R. Marcos Jr. said the country will increase its production of rice and corn as his administration prefers such over importation. (Manila Bulletin File Photo) During a media briefing, he said the...
