The National Irrigation Administration (NIA) said on Friday, July 28, that its three big dams or high dams are still collecting water and far from spilling level, thus, it won’t open its gates any time soon to release water despite the heavy rains brought by Super Typhoon “Egay”. *Angat Dam...
LEGAZPI CITY (PNA) – The head of the National Irrigation Administration (NIA) said he believes the country is ready to address the El Niño phenomenon in the coming months with the convergence of national government agencies. In a press conference on Friday, NIA administrator Eduardo Guillen said...
SANTO NINO, Cagayan – The National Irrigation Administration held the groundbreaking ceremony for the P1.70-billion Calapangan Small Reservoir Irrigation Project in Barangay Abariongan Uneg here on Saturday, June 9. NATIONAL Irrigation Administration officials led the groundbreaking ceremony for...
The government intends to encouraging young people to enter the agriculture sector, and bring down the average age of Filipino famers, President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. said. President Ferdinand 'Bongbong' Marcos Jr. presides over the rice industry convergence meeting at the National...
LINGAYEN, Pangasinan – A solar-powered irrigation pump will be turned over in this province to farmers to mitigate the effects of the looming El Niño this year. The National Irrigation Administration (NIA) and the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) are set to turn over a solar-powered...
Senate Minority Leader Aquilino Pimentel III has thrown his full support to a call of Senator Rafael ‘’Raffy’’ Tulfo for the Senate to use the budget process to hold government agencies, particularly the National Irrigation Administration (NIA), responsible for losses of billions of pesos...
DAGUPAN CITY – The National Irrigation Administration (NIA)-Ilocos is preparing for the coming El Niño. A BACKYARD garden like this is feared to bear the brunt of the looming El Niño. (Liezle Basa-Inigo) NIA-Ilocos Manager Engr. Gaudencio de Vera said they have come up with several...
The Philippines would need P2 trillion to irrigate some 1.2 million hectares of potentially irrigable areas in the country, National Irrigation Administration (NIA) Acting Administrator Eduardo Guillen said on Tuesday, April 18. (Photo courtesy of Bloomberg/Getty Images) During a media briefing...
President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. directed government agencies to come up with a “whole-of-nation” and “whole-of-government” approach in preparing for the El Niño phenomenon that could hit the country this year. President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. at a sectoral meeting...
State-run Power Sector Assets and Liabilities Management Corporation (PSALM) has moved to May 16 this year the sale of the 165-megawatt Casecnan hydropower facility instead of March 28. According to PSALM President Dennis Edward A. Dela Serna, the asset-seller firm has yet to finalize the Water...
The National Irrigation Administration (NIA) has turned over around P45 million worth of project which uses solar power in the irrigation system for farmers in Surigao del Norte. In a statement, NIA Caraga Regional Manager, June S. Plaza sad the project was turned over to the Sta. Paz Farmer...
President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. has designated former Piddig, Ilocos Norte mayor Eduardo Guillen as the acting administrator of the National Irrigation Administration (NIA). Former Piddig mayor Eduardo Guillen (Photo courtesy of the DA) Malacañang confirmed that Guillen took his oath as...
