Tagbilaran City – Bohol Province is now branding its premium rice produced by the Boholano farmers themselves through the launching of its own brand “Sun Rice”, as one of the highlights of the Grand Harvest Festival in November 2020, in a shift of local staple agriculture to competitiveness....
CEBU CITY – Nutrition implementors in Cebu Province specifically from the cities of Bogo and Toledo received vegetable seeds from the Department of Agriculture (DA-7) for household and community food production gardens as one way to address malnutrition especially among children in this time...
CEBU CITY – The Department of Agriculture (DA)-Central Visayas through its Agribusiness and Marketing Assistance Division (AMAD) has linked the Dumalan Farmers' Association, Inc. (DUMFA) of Dalaguete, Cebu to the Ulay Agro Industrial Enterprises (UAI), a Cebu City based vegetable trader/buyer in...
TAGBILARAN CITY -- A rice farmer from Paraiso, Mabini town in Bohol, Estarlita Vallecera got for the first time the highest yield from its hybrid rice farm when she harvested an average of eight metric tons per hectare during his actual harvest last October 16 and the Department of Agriculture (DA)...
CEBU CITY – The Department of Agriculture (DA-7) is pushing to revitalize and revive the coffee industry in Central Visayas which has been declining through the years.  DA-7 regional executive director Atty/ Salvador Diputado led the actual initial planting of 1,000 Robusta coffee...
CEBU CITY— The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR)-Central Visayas called on fisherfolks in the region to register with their respective City or Municipal Agriculture Office of the local government unit or the Provincial Fishery Offices of BFAR to listed under the Registry System for...
CEBU CITY – The National Anti-Poverty Commission (NAPC) lauded the Davao Region Agriculture Cooperative (Draco) for introducing natural composting as part of a special training for aspiring young agricultural entrepreneurs in Davao City to sustain urban gardening to produce food and help...
CEBU CITY – The Philippine Coconut Authority (PCA) embarked on a replanting project of coconuts and be paid for it as its assistance to coconut farmers whose livelihood income from the tree had gone down the drain due to COVID-19 pandemic. PCA- Bohol manager Engr. Emiliano Romero said that the...
CEBU CITY – Rona Dengue, 40, is now considered Bohol’s leading farmer-scientist queen of cultured fungi/mushrooms earning an income of about P50,000 a week from her mushroom beds in her organic vegetable garden situated in a 2.5-hectare agricultural property in Sambog, Corella town in Bohol....
CEBU CITY-- The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR-7) officially declared that it has successfully spawned catfish (??????? ??????????) via natural methods at the Clarin Freshwater Fish Farm (CFFF) facility in Clarin town in Bohol. According to BFAR-CFFF information officer Ma. Rocile...
TAGBILARAN CITY – The Provincial Government of Bohol stepped up its assistance to more than 1,000 farmers with P2.2 million worth of hybrid rice seeds; food packs to 381 island families; cash aid to some rebel returnees and awarded winners to the Provincial Search for Best Gulayan sa Paaralan...