LAPU-LAPU CITY, Cebu — Fisherfolk and farmers in Central Visayas are set to receive fuel subsidies and financial assistance as production costs climb alongside rising global oil prices. The assistance comes as government agencies move to cushion…
CEBU CITY, Philippines — Mayor Nestor Archival is considering placing upland barangays under a state of calamity as farmers grapple with plunging produce prices, rising transport costs, and worsening dry conditions that have left crops unsold and…
As the dry season intensifies, the city government has eyed declaring a state of calamity to support livelihoods, especially in the agriculture sector on mountainous areas in Cebu.…
CEBU CITY, Philippines — Binignit has always been the go-to dessert for the Bisaya people in the Lenten season, particularly during Holy Thursday or Good Friday. So much so that even in times of health peril or…
While many students chose to dress up as engineers, doctors, and lawyers during the school’s career guidance program, one student in Bohol took a different path.…
A cardboard box draped with a towel front hides a man's head as he pedals slowly on his bike.…
CEBU CITY, Philippines — Cebu farmlands are disappearing, and with them, the future of food production and food security. This is the urgent warning raised by farmer and fisherfolk leaders in Cebu who are calling on the…
MANILA – A total of 220 agrarian reform beneficiaries (ARBs) in Cebu province were relieved from paying some P502,468 in unpaid amortizations under the condonation program of the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR). In a news release on…
MANILA, Philippines — Consumers may soon pay more for their daily cup of joe as supply woes brew in the global market—but this could be a blessing in disguise for Filipino coffee farmers who now have greater…
MANILA – A total of 1,483 agrarian reform beneficiaries (ARBs) from Bataan, Bulacan, and Aurora have been relieved from debts and obligations amounting to PHP57.796 million in agricultural lands awarded under the agrarian reform program. The Department of…
MANDAUE CITY, Cebu — Catalino Panaginip Jr., 45, had been farming for at least 14 years. Panaginip, who is from Sitio Satuhan in the mountain barangay of Sudlon II in Cebu City, said that farming had been…
The Department of Agriculture (DA) sees significant rice production losses this year due to widespread bad weather, an official said Friday. “We can expect that our losses will be somewhat significant this year compared to last year…
