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Agriculture Secretary William Dar has assured that the African swine fever (ASF) incidents in several areas in Bulacan and Rizal may be considered an outbreak, but not an epidemic. “Specifically, ASF was already contained in Barangay Pritil, Guiguinto, Bulacan; and in several barangays in Rodriguez, San Mateo, and Antipolo, Rizal –and not in the entire […]
Merchandise exports by the Philippines continued to be resilient despite escalating US-China trade frictions and global slowdown, partly due to continued market access in Southeast Asia, Japan, the European Union (EU), as well as U.S. and China, said Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) Secretary Ramon Lopez. Export growth was positive for the 4th-straight month […]
Agriculture Secretary William Dar has ordered the National Food Authority (NFA) to bring down rice prices to P27 per kilo by flooding Metro Manila markets with 3.6 million bags of the staple grain. Dar also directed the agency to increase palay support price to P19 from P17 per kilo. “The NFA Council (NFAC) met and […]
The Department of Agriculture (DA) will be implementing more interventions to help rice farmers who were affected by the drop in palay prices. In a media briefing in Malacañang, Agriculture Secretary William Dar said the National Food Authority (NFA) will speed up the “turnaround” of palay-rice stocks by up to four times, which will create […]
Agriculture Secretary William Dar is urging the country’s tuna industry players to continuously upgrade their operation, especially their fishing fleets, to make them more competitive in the expanding global markets. Speaking at the opening of the 2019 National Tuna Congress in General Santos City, Dar said it is important for the industry to modernize all […]
Instead of distributing a P600 rice subsidy per month, families under the government’s Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) will be given actual rice under a new proposal. Department of Agriculture (DA) Secretary William Dar bared that his agency is working with the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) to convert the latter’s P600 subsidy […]
More than 1,000 rice farmers received cash cards of P15,000 each as the Department of Agriculture (DA) officially launched its Expanded Survival and Recovery Assistance Program for Rice Farmers (SURE Aid) in Zaragoza, Nueva Ecija. Agriculture Secretary William Dar led the distribution, which coincided with the 123rd celebration of Unang Sigaw ng Nueva Ecija (First […]
Mindanao will be the food basket of the Philippines and will be given its due share and priority in agriculture and rural development. This was the assurance given by Agriculture Secretary William Dar in a press briefing in Davao City recently where he cited Mindanao’s contributions to the country’s economy. Dar cited the potentials of […]
Government will roll out a P1.5-billion loan program for farmers who were affected by the Rice Tariffication Law (RTL) due to the influx of cheaper rice imports. At the sidelines of a forum on hybrid rice recently, Agriculture Secretary William Dar said instead of an initial conditional cash transfer to help the rice farmers, the […]
Newly appointed Agriculture Secretary William Dar is targeting a 3-4 percent growth in the agriculture sector until 2022. This comes amid a decline in agricultural output in the second quarter of the year, which was recorded at -1.27 percent, as compared to 0.12 percent for the same period last year, according to the data released […]