Amid a threat of another long dry spell called the El Niño, Secretary Manny Piñol said the Department of Agriculture “will lay down this early preparatory measures to protect the Filipino farmers and fishermen from its ill-effects.” He sounded the warning after the Australian Weather Bureau warned that the Pacific Ocean could warm up […]
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The country’s major river basins and lakes will be seeded with fingerlings of indigenous and non-invasive fish species over the next five years in a program which the Department of Agriculture (DA) calls Project BASIL or Balik Sigla sa Ilog at Lawa. The National Inland Fisheries Enhancement Program of the Bureau of Fisheries and […]