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With four months remaining in the year, the Department of Agriculture (DA) continues to implement major interventions to ensure adequate, accessible, and affordable food to millions of Filipino households, particularly in Metro Manila and other major consumption centers, amid the COVID-19 pandemic. “We refocused part of our remaining budget for the year, of which 73% […]
Senate Majority Leader Juan Miguel Zubiri is lending his support to Mindanao farmers who are struggling against imported feed wheat. Local farmers have approached the senator from Mindanao to raise their predicament of having to compete with imported wheat feed in the market, amid the harvest season for locally produced corn. “We need to help […]
“On behalf of President Rodrigo Roa Duterte, Filipino farmers, and the Department of Agriculture, we profoundly appreciate the continuing support of the Asian Development Bank (ADB), particularly its recent approval of the $400-million loan to aid policy reforms of the Philippine government aimed at raising the productivity and competitiveness of the country’s agriculture sector, and […]
Agriculture Secretary William Dar has assured that the Philippines will have enough rice for the rest of the year, despite the implementation of a protracted community quarantine due to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic and other developments, that could disrupt the global rice market, such as the flooding in China. For August, Dar said that the […]
As the Philippines expands its economic and trade relations with Canada, the Department of Agriculture (DA) aims to export more farm and fishery products to that country, by at least doubling the value in the medium term. “We wish to improve our balance of trade with Canada in succeeding years by selling more Filipino products […]
Agriculture Secretary William Dar is banking on the momentum gained by the agriculture sector in the second quarter (Q2) of this year to buoy the Philippine economy, after plunging into a recession for the first time in three decades. For Q2 2020, the agriculture sector managed to grow by 1.6 percent, while other economic sectors […]
The Department of Agriculture, led by Secretary William Dar, is taking on the challenge posed by Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez, to exert all efforts to enable the country’s agriculture sector to grow by at least 2 percent per year amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. “This is a tall order set by our mentor, and […]
The Department of Agriculture (DA) said the country’s agri-fishery sector – buoyed by the Duterte administration’s Plant, Plant, Plant program – has been performing well amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. “We continue to elevate our game to sustainably feed the country’s growing population under the ‘new normal’ and ensure the survival and recovery of […]
To continuously ensure that residents of Metro Manila are supplied with safe vegetables, the Department of Agriculture and the San Juan City government have forged a partnership for the implementation of the Urban Agriculture Program (UAP). The intensified UAP, which is one of the key strategies of the Department during the time of pandemic, aims to […]
The Department of Agriculture (DA) — in tandem with the provincial and municipal government officials and veterinarians — has successfully managed, controlled, and contained the incidence of avian influenza (bird flu) in Jaen, Nueva Ecija, four months ago. In its official report to the OIE or the World Organization for Animal Health recently, the DA-Bureau […]