Ako Bicol Party-list Rep. Zaldy Co (Co’s Facebook page) House Committee on Appropriations chairman and Ako Bicol Party-list Rep. Zaldy Co has expressed support for the National Irrigation Administration's (NIA) solar irrigation project that aims to...
President Marcos has directed the National Irrigation Authority (NIA) to finish the P14-billion Tumauini dam in Isabela as soon as possible as the country gears toward boosting agricultural production to ensure food security. President Ferdinand ‘Bongbong’ Marcos Jr. (Noel Pabalate) “Ito po...
President Marcos has ordered the proper use and disposal of rainwater by making it a clean and potable water source, National Irrigation Administration (NIA) Administrator Eddie Guillen said. President Ferdinand ‘Bongbong’ Marcos Jr. (Yummie Dingding/PPA Pool) In a news forum in Quezon City,...
President Marcos has urged the National Irrigation Administration (NIA) to modernize and rehabilitate the Magat Dam, an infrastructure that he described as the key to agricultural development in Isabela and the Cagayan Valley region. NIA Photo Marcos said this during the inauguration of the...
As palay production declined by 0.3 percent in the first three months of this year, an economist from the University of Santo Tomas (UST) shared how technological advances can procure a steady and high rice output for the future. In recent data from the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA), the...
The National Irrigation Administration (NIA) assured that selling rice would not compete with traders, and instead would assist them. In a statement, the NIA shared its plan to sell a kilo of rice for P29 by August, through the Contract Farming program. This initiative would allow farmers to...
The Marcos administration has already completed some 4,700 flood control projects from July 2022 to 2024, with 4,000 others currently being implemented, Palace press briefer Daphne Oseña-Paez said on Tuesday, May 7. During a Palace press briefing after a sectoral meeting with President...
Repower Energy Development Corp. (REDC) and the National Irrigation Administration (NIA) signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) for possible hydropower facilities in Quezon, Camarines Sur, and Bohol. In a statement, REDC said that the hydropower unit of Pure Energy Holdings Corp. has received...
LEGAZPI CITY, Albay – The National Irrigation Administration reported on Wednesday, March 6, that 479.15 hectares of rice farms in Bicol region have been affected by the dry spell due to the El Niño phenomenon. RICE farms in Polangui, Albay are starting to dry up due to the El...
ILOILO CITY – The National Irrigation Administration-6 is investigating the death of a water tank driver in a road accident in the Iloilo mega dam project in Calinog, Iloilo. A ROAD within the mega dam project site in Calinog town, Iloilo province. (NIA-6 JRMP-II) The Project Management Office...
The National Irrigation Administration (NIA) is courting investments from the British International Investment (BII) for the development of the Magat and Pantabangan dams. NIA Administrator Eduardo Guillen said on Tuesday, Feb. 13, said the agency is inviting investment in various water...
The National Irrigation Administration (NIA) is confident that the country's agriculture sector can weather the adverse effects of the El Niño phenomenon after it put in place its comprehensive national program ahead of the dry spell. NIA Administrator Eduardo Guillen said that the agency, in...
