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CONGRESS WILL ACT QUICKLY ON RICE TARIFFICATION BILL – PANGANIBAN

House Committee on Agriculture chairman and ANAC-IP Rep. Jose Panganiban, Jr. expressed confidence on Monday that Congress will act quickly on the rice tariffication bill. President Rodrigo Duterte had certified its passage as urgent Wednesday last week. When certified as urgent, a bill need not undergo the three-day rule between the second and third reading […]

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GREATER COOPERATION AMONG COUNTRIES NEEDED FOR PROTECTION, CONSERVATION OF ENVIRONMENT – VILLAR

Senator Cynthia Villar has called for more discussions and greater cooperation among countries towards securing biodiversity and protection and conservation of the environment as she stressed the correlation between climate change and the global goal of food security. In a speech before participants attending a series of dialogues on biological diversity in the country, Villar […]

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RAISE ANIMALS IN YOUR BACKYARD TO ENSURE FOOD FOR THE FAMILY – VILLAR

With the rising cost of food products due to high inflation rates, Filipinos need to be resilient and be self-sufficient to sustain their family’s food requirements, Senator Cynthia Villar has stressed. “Everything has become expensive, especially basic food supplies. We are now all feeling the impact of our country’s all-time high inflation rate for the […]

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USE CLIMATE-ADAPTIVE STRATEGIES IN ADDRESSING FOOD SECURITY – AGRI PARTY-LIST

A party-list representing the agriculture sector said that government must institutionalize measures that will mitigate the effects of climate change. With damage to agriculture steadily rising with the onset of rain, AGRI Party-list Secretary General Benjie Martinez said that unless climate-adaptive strategies are employed, efforts to ensure food security will be hampered. According to the […]

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FRESHWATER FISH FARMERS NEED GOVERNMENT AID – VILLAR

Senator Cynthia Villar has stressed the urgent need for government to do so much more to improve the country’s aquaculture sector and boost the production and income of fresh water fish farmers. Villar, chairperson of the Senate Committee on Agriculture and Food, noted that the volume of total fisheries production went down to around 1 […]