The country’s grand ambition for massive solar power installations could result in weaker food sustainability, because energy developments could snatch lands that could have otherwise been allocated for agricultural production, a study outcome of the Department of Energy (DOE) has shown. The DOE...
Iloilo Representative Janette Garin on Monday, Sept. 27 questioned the P1-billion worth of funds proposed by the Department of Agriculture (DA) supposedly for the government’s solar panel irrigation system (SPIS) project, saying she finds the program “untimely” and “impractical” at this...
The Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) has installed an irrigation system dependent on solar power in Isabela in a bid to help farmers suffering from drought during the dry season. DAR Sec. John Castriciones said the P1 million-worth project in Barangay Sinili in Santiago City will address the...
A modular on-site and solar-powered cold storage system from India could be the solution to the lingering post-harvest woes of farmers in the Philippines. (Photo by Naveed Ahmed / Unsplash) Department of Agriculture (DA) Secretary William Dar on Friday, June 25, bared that the agency has teamed up...
West Zone concessionaire Maynilad Water Services, Inc. had set up a P100-million solar power farm inside its La Mesa Compound in Quezon City, a move that the company considers its first step toward green energy. The 1-megawatt PV (photovoltaic) solar power farm was built to augment the power supply...
The local government unit (LGU) of Pasig City inaugurated the 100 kilowatt on-grid solar power system at the Pasig Sports Center at the City Hall on Monday (May 31). (Mayor Vico Sotto / MANILA BULLETIN) Mayor Vico Sotto said the city government spent P6.6 million for the solar power system. “Sa...
