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CEBU CITY, Philippines—A project designed to bring farm products closer to the market in the province of Bohol and Cebu generated almost P700,000 for the participating farmers during the official launching of the Kadiwa ni Ani at…
So, this is how it feels to be in a wartime mode — each day of the COVID-19 crisis brings uncertainty coupled with hope that the nightmare will soon end. We offer our condolences and…
CEBU CITY—Happy days will soon be over for those who sell farm and fishery products at unreasonably high prices. This after the Department of Agriculture has assured that they will take action against those people. In a…
CEBU CITY, Philippines — The Department of Agriculture in Central Visayas (DA-7) can now forego with the bidding process to procure equipment and other items that can be used in controlling the spread of the African…
SAN PEDRO CITY—The Department of Agriculture’s (DA) Bureau of Plant Industry has approved the biosafety permit of “Golden Rice,” putting the genetically engineered rice variety a step closer to commercial production in the Philippines. Golden Rice was…
CEBU CITY, Philippines — Rice farmers in Central Visayas may not be qualified to receive the P5,000 financial assistance from the Department of Agriculture (DA). The cash assistance was intended for small rice farmers, who were mostly…
CEBU CITY, Philippines — Dr. Mary Rose Vincoy, Cebu provincial veterinarian, questioned the move of the Department of Agriculture (DA) to modify the protocol in zones affected with African Swine Fever (ASF). In an interview on Wednesday,…
CEBU CITY, Philippines— Young scientist Denxybel Montinola’s bioplastic invention made out of mango peelings and seaweeds has caught the attention of Agriculture Secretary Emmanuel “Manny” Piñol. In his Facebook post last July 30, Piñol shared CDN Digital’s…
MANILA, Philippines — The Department of Agriculture (DA) finds itself in a sweet bind. It is faced with a surplus of 2 million kilos of mangoes from the recent harvest, which has brought prices down to…
The restructuring of the country’s grains agency National Food Authority (NFA) has finally begun more than a month after the government released the implementing rules and regulations (IRR) of the rice import liberalization law. The Department of…
Cebu City, Philippines – Following reports of an African Swine Fever (ASF) outbreak, Salvador Diputado, Regional Director of the Department of Agriculture in Central Visayas (DA-7), reassured that the whole of Central Visayas has no reported case of the…
Non-government organization Oceana filed on Friday (October 19) a petition seeking the issuance of a writ of mandamus against the Department of Agriculture (DA) and the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR). The petition seeks to…
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