The Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) and the Department of Human Settlements and Urban Development (DHSUD) will soon turn over housing units to dairy farmers of Guinobatan, Albay. Under the two agencies' Building, Adequate, Livable, Affordable, and Inclusive Filipino Communities (BALAI) project,...
President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has directed the officials of the Department of Energy (DOE) to submit a comprehensive report on oil price swings as well as the cost impacts of rising fuel prices to the public utility vehicle (PUV) drivers and the agricultural sector as basis for potential...
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY – The Department of Agriculture Regional Field Office in region 10 (Northern Mindanao) has promised to work out marketing agreement with the Lantapan Vegetable Farmers Multi-Purpose Cooperative to assist farmers with a possible market tie-up with the cooperative’s existing...
To ensure sufficient supply of grains in the country, a group of farmers on Wednesday, July 6, asked President and Agriculture Secretary Ferdinand “Bongbong” R. Marcos Jr. to declare a two-year moratorium on land conversion. FARMERS in Western Visayas region are urged to adapt to...
Aiming to address the “root” of social strife due to landlessness and poverty, Makabayan representatives, together with peasant and fisherfolk leaders refiled the Genuine Agrarian Reform Bill (GARB) in the 19th Congress. Makabayan representatives along with peasant and fisherfolk leaders...
A day after Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. took his oath as the 17th President of the Philippines, peasant group Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP) presented their demands for the agriculture sector, adding that all of these are “doable” within the first 100 days of the new...
AGRI Party-list Representative Wilbert T. Lee (Photo taken from the LKY Group of Companies Website) A long-time advocate of the agriculture sector, Wilbert T. Lee is the representative of AGRI partylist, also known as AGRI-AGRA Na Reporma Para Sa Magsasaka ng Pilipinas in the 19th Congress. The...
Intending to help resolve the ongoing the food crisis, peasant group Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP) announced that they will be laying down dozen “concrete and doable demands” that president-elect Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr.’s administration can accomplish within the first 100...
Senator Manuel “Lito” Lapid on Monday, June 27 called on Department of Agriculture (DA) Secretary William Dar to look into the concern of farmers and farm workers regarding the reported consequences and adverse effects of the Rice Tariffication Law (RTL) or Republic Act No. 11203 before he...
BAGUIO CITY -- A total of P141.3 million worth of fertilizer discount voucher, farm machineries and equipment were simultaneously turned over by the Department of Agriculture-Cordillera to rice and corn farmers in Apayao and Abra province. Photo via Zaldy Comanda The turnover was done on Saturday,...
POLICE uproot 57 fully grown marijuana plants and arrested two farmers in Barangay Nataban, San Carlos City, Negros Occidental Friday, June 24. (Photo courtesy of San Carlos City Police Station) BACOLOD CITY – Fifty-seven fully grown marijuana plants valued at P240,000 were uprooted and two...
Tilapia is the Philippines’ second-most important farmed fish, after bangus. It is also the most consumed fish in the Philippines, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). The most predominant species in the country is Nile tilapia ( Oreochromis niloticus...
