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The Senate passed on third and final reading a bill imposing severe sanctions against smugglers, profiteers, hoarders and cartels of agricultural and fishery products. Voting 18-0-0, senators approved Senate Bill No. (SBN) 2432 or the Anti-Agricultural Economic Sabotage Act. The bill repeals Republic Act No. 10845, otherwise known as the Anti-Agricultural Smuggling Act of 2016. […]
Employees of the Provincial Agriculture Office have finally transferred to their new workplace as Bulacan Governor Daniel Fernando and Vice Governor Alexis Castro led the inauguration along the Capitol Compound here. The two-storey building will house the Provincial Agriculture Office on the second floor while the first floor will be the Farmers/Fisherfolks Training Center. For […]
The Department of Agriculture, through the Philippine Center for Postharvest Development and Mechanization (DA-PhilMech) and the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) launched recently the country’s first Agricultural Machinery Design and Prototyping Center (AMDPC). Agriculture Secretary Francisco Tiu Laurel, Jr. led the inauguration of the 2,000-square meter facility located at PhilMech in the Science City of […]
To increase yield and improve production of rice in the province of Ilocos Norte, Agriculture Secretary Francisco Tiu Laurel, Jr. distributed modern farm equipment and machineries amounting to P73.3 million. The interventions, under the 2023 allocation of the Rice Competitiveness Enhancement Fund (RCEF) Mechanization Program, will benefit 52 farmers’ cooperatives and associations (FCAs), as well as […]
To reduce dependence on imported chemical fertilizer which costs the country P10 billion a year, Senator Cynthia Villar gave anew composting facilities. “The current global demand greatly affects the entry of fertilizer imports in our country. This caused limited local fertilizer supply that influenced the escalation of local prices,” noted Villar, chairperson of the Senate […]
“In this country, every day, I witness a disaster,” Philippine Red Cross (PRC) Chairman and CEO Dick Gordon remarked on the pressing issues of food insecurity and child malnutrition in the Philippines. According to the 2021 Expanded National Nutrition Survey (ENNS) by the Philippines’ National Nutrition Council (NNC), 2 percent of Filipino households are severely […]
Newly-appointed agriculture secretary Francisco Tiu Laurel, Jr. said his priority is to increase food production and modernize agriculture, a major pillar of the Philippine economy. Laurel said the marching order of President Ferdinand Marcos, Jr. is to modernize agriculture so the country could be food secure, less dependent on imports and lift millions of farmers and […]
The Philippine Center for Postharvest Development and Mechanization (PHilMech) signed a memorandum of agreement with the local government unit (LGU) of Science City of Muñoz, Nueva Ecija, for the establishment of the Rice Processing System (RPS) 2 under the Rice Competitiveness Enhancement Fund (RCEF) Mechanization Program. The LGU will receive P61.4 million worth of postharvest […]
Officials of the Philippine Department of Agriculture (DA), United States (US) government, and Business Council for International Understanding (BCIU) convened recently for an open forum and networking lunch as part of the US and BCIU’s agriculture mission to the Philippines. With the main objective of advancing food security goals, the meeting was led by DA […]
Senator Bong Go, a member of the Senate Committee on Agriculture and Vice Chair of the Senate Committee on Finance, urged the Department of Agriculture (DA) to strengthen government support for agricultural workers to help ensure food security in the country while also expressing his support to the current efforts of the department as well […]