Agriculture

Agriculture Secretary Francisco Tiu Laurel, Jr. enjoined DA employees  to stay focused on the goal of ensuring food security in 2024 as the country faces the challenges of El Niño, global price hikes and supply shocks. He led the department’s annual Christmas celebration and expressed confidence that a united and determined DA could foster greater food production in spite of …

In an article that appeared at the Department of Agriculture last December 15, a beaming 43-year-old cancer survivor, Mylin V. Tayapad gratefully accepted with a mix od joy and disbelief the national award of the DA’s Search for Outstanding Rural Women 2023. The mother of six hails from Lagonglong, Misamis Oriental, where she cultivates a two-hectare land using organic and eco-friendly …

Agriculture Undersecretary for Rice Industry Development Leocadio S. Sebastian’s greatest contribution to the flourishing rice industry of Vietnam through the Smart MAP, which help them plan ahead the planting and harvesting of rice against salt intrusion from the Mekong River and climate change was recently feted by a Vietnamese newspaper following his recent visit to Hau Giang for the Vietnam …

The country’s rice production across all ecosystems is expected to hit 20 million metric tons, a report tracking the three quarters’ data of the Philippine Statistics showed. Compared to the output of 19.756 MMT harvested from 4, 804,591 hectares in 2022, this year’s rice production would hit 20.143 million MT reaped from 4,816,933 hectares or up by 386,193 metric tons. …

Officials of the Department of Agriculture in Regions 1,2,3 and CAR met yesterday to finalize strategies to ensure that food production would not greatly suffer with the ongoing El Nino, which would intensify by February to April 2024. Undersecretary for Rice Industry Development Leocadio S. Sebastian asked the National Irrigation Administration in these regions to program more rationally the release.of …

By Rose de la Cruz The continuing deficiencies in local supplies of vital food commodities, which are expected to be filled by imports, have prompted the government to maintain lower tariff rates on food imports to ensure that food inflation will not worsen. This, after the board of the National Economic and Development Authority– chaired by President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. …

President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. and newly-confirmed Agriculture Secretary Francis Tiu Laurel led in the turnover of P776 million worth of excavators to various irrigators’ associations in the country held at the Naval Supply Depot in Subic Bay Freeport Zone, Olongapo City on Thursday. The NIA, an attached corporation of the Department of Agriculture (DA), procured 141 units of excavators under …

A special joint project of the Department of Agriculture with the Department of Justice providing persons deprived of liberty (PDLs) livelihood and farm training inside prison camps, called the DAxDOJ Reformation Initiative for Sustainable Environment for Food Security DAxDOJ RISE has been benefitting inmates who are now more confident about having a livelihood after their release. “Paglabas ko po dito, …

Many farmers in Lanao del Norte who abandoned rice farming because of significant yield losses are now returning because of improved harvests largely from the training given to them by a graduate of the Rice Competitiveness Enhancement Fund Rice Extension Service Program (RCtEF RESP). A story on Queenie R. Notario, owner of a farm school in Bacolod, who began planning …

By Rose de la Cruz Danilo Arcales Bolos is one farmer who has made a record in the country not just for his fete in producing 17 metric tons per hectare (even recently hitting 19 mt/hectare) for hybrid rice which he gladly shared with colleagues but also for having successfully raised his children until they finish their professions. On the …