In a bid to boost the country’s fisheries output, the Philippine government is amenable to the private sector’s proposal to set up aquaculture sites within protected areas and dams across the country. This came two weeks after advocacy group Tugon Kabuhayan started pushing for the crafting of...
Aside from the local livestock industry, the Philippine government also stands to lose if the Department of Agriculture’s (DA) proposal to reduce the tariff on pork imports will be given the green light. This was according to a resolution adopted by the Philippine Council for Agriculture and...
An aquaculture firm is now awaiting the approval of the National Irrigation Administration (NIA) for its unsolicited proposal to breed and harvest fish and other seafood products in Pantabangan Dam, one of the largest dams in Asia. This, while the advocacy group Tugon Kabuhayan started pushing for...
Food and agriculture exporters from other countries selling their products to the Philippines save millions of money because of the government's lenient food safety regulations, a local exporter said. Norberto Chingcuanco, co-convenor of Tugon Kabuhayan, said that while local exporters...
Complementary measures are needed to ensure food and livelihood security for municipal fisherfolk and commercial fish workers in the Philippines during the closed fishing season, according to the international organization Oceana. In a statement, Oceana has called for the implementation of sardines...
The Philippine government has welcomed the scorecard that several civil society groups have put out for the monitoring and evaluation of policy interventions within designated fisheries management areas (FMA) in the country. The FMA Scorecard is intended as a tool to monitor and recommend measures...
The Department of Agriculture’s (DA) senate-approved budget for 2021 is P86 billion, which is only 30 percent of the agency’s original budget proposal of P280 billion. In a statement, DA said the senate in a plenary session approved the proposed P85.58-billion budget of the DA, including those...
Fishermen in Bicol region, which was badly hit by Ulysses and Rolly, are worried that if they won’t be able to recover from the recent typhoons fast enough and fix their boats, they will stay hungry until February next year. Lagonoy Gulf Integrated Fisheries and Aquatic Resources Management...
Typhoon-hit fishermen are demanding to get a share from the Department of Agriculture's (DA) calamity fund a week after Ulysses, the deadliest storm to hit the Philippines so far for this year, made landfall and affected their livelihood. On Friday, Pambansang Lakas ng Kilusang Mamamalakaya ng...
Fishers’ group Pambansang Lakas ng Kilusang Mamamalakaya ng Pilipinas (PAMALAKAYA) is asking the government to look for other solutions to the expected shortage of tilapia and galunggong, stressing importation in not the answer as this will be detrimental to small fishermen. PAMALAKAYA National...
The Philippine government may resort to importation anew to address a projected deficit in the supply of the country’s staple fishery products like tilapia and galunggong or round scad. Agriculture Secretary William Dar said the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) already made a...
The threat of illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing in the Philippines is estimated at P5 trillion annually, but there is just no exact way to measure how much the country is really losing from this. Rollan Geronimo, IUU Fishing Specialist for the United States Agency for International...
