A farm-to-market road (FMR) masterplan, higher agricultural production, credit and affordable farm inputs, and improved research and development (R&D) are among the priorities of the proposed 2023 budget of the Department of Agriculture (DA). (Image courtesy of the Department of Agriculture)...
Senator Imee Marcos on Sunday called on the Department of Agriculture (DA) to speed up the release of almost P9-billion worth of government subsidies particularly for rice farmers who are now preparing for the wet planting season. Marcos said rice farmers who have reached out to her office...
Department of Agriculture (DA) Undersecretary Leocadio Sebastian on Tuesday, August claimed that he is under a 90-day preventive suspension and that Malacañang has not yet accepted his resignation. At the continuation of the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee hearing on the sugar importation fiasco,...
Senator Imee Marcos on Sunday urged the government to conduct a comprehensive inventory of local white onions to check the extent of a shortage caused by last summer’s lean harvest. Marcos said doing so would also help the government determine if there are traders who are hoarding white onions....
SAN FERNANDO CITY, La Union – The Department of Agriculture-Regional Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Operations Center Region 1 (Ilocos) reported an initial damage of P26,532,572.66 in agriculture from severe tropical storm “Florita.” Atty. Jennilyn Dawayan, DA Region 1 director, said...
Senator Risa Hontiveros has questioned the supposed involvement of the Office of the Executive Secretary (OES) headed by Vic Rodriguez in the attempted and unauthorized importation of 300,000 metric tons (MTs) of sugar. Hontiveros was particularly curious as to why Rodriguez did not spare President...
One of the leaders of the sugar producers groups said Tuesday they "were made to believe" that there was a need to import sugar as reportedly instructed by acting Department of Agriculture (DA) Secretary President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. During the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee hearing,...
Malacañang remains tight-lipped on calls for President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. to designate a full-time Department of Agriculture (DA) secretary to focus on issues affecting the agriculture sector. President Ferdinand 'Bongbong' Marcos Jr. (Photo courtesy of Malacañang) "We have no...
Malacañang on Tuesday, Aug. 23 denied knowledge of the attempted importation of 300,000 metric tons (MTs) of sugar to address the supposed supply deficit in the country. Executive Secretary Vic Rodriguez said it was only on Aug 10 that they learned that former Department of Agriculture (DA)...
Amid pressure from senators to disclose the persons who supposedly influenced him to sign the unauthorized order on the importation of 300,000 metric tons (MTs) of sugar, former Department of Agriculture (DA) Undersecretary Leocadio Sebastian said Tuesday, Aug. 23 that nobody was behind his move...
Appoint an Agriculture chief to fix leadership issues. That was what Senator Risa Hontiveros told President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. on Thursday to prevent an impending crisis in the sugar industry and other essential products. Hontiveros described the leadership in the Department of...
A two-time Agriculture chief is back at the Department of Agriculture (DA) as an undersecretary. President Ferdinand 'Bongbong' Marcos administers the oath taking of former Agriculture Secretary Domingo Panganiban as Undersecretary of the DA. (Photo courtesy of OP) President Ferdinand "Bongbong"...
