‘AGRI-BUSINESS’ Archives

Vegetable Farmers learn Organic Agriculture

In the effort to promote and develop organic agriculture, the Department of Agriculture – Agribusiness and Marketing Assistance Division (DA-AMAD) co-funded a seminar on Pest and Diseases and Organic Agriculture among members of the Mindanao Agri-Growers Multi-purpose Cooperative or MAG-MPC on April 17, 2012 at De Luxe Hotel, Cagayan de Oro [...]

Vegetable Farmers learn Organic Agriculture

In the effort to promote and develop organic agriculture, the Department of Agriculture – Agribusiness and Marketing Assistance Division (DA-AMAD) co-funded a seminar on Pest and Diseases and Organic Agriculture among members of the Mindanao Agri-Growers Multi-purpose Cooperative or MAG-MPC on April 17, 2012 at De Luxe Hotel, Cagayan de Oro [...]

Organic farming pushed

By DAHLIA BENEMIRITO, Correspondent BUKIDNON – An advocate in the protection and preservation of the environment has called on the government and private sector to rally behind organic and natural farming to preserve the environment. (more...)

AFMP CONSULTATION. DA in close coordination with NAFC has convened with its agricultural clienteles from regions 9, 10 and 13 to generate views and recommendations on their respective AFMP draft for the 2011-2017 period, before such will be completed and incorporated into the national AFMP.

Agri, tourism, public works top list of investment priorities

By Abe P. Belena CAGAYAN DE ORO, Feb. 25 - A wide range of agribusiness projects, tourism facilities and services and infrastructure topped the list of proposed priority investment projects recently released by the Board of Investments (BOI). The infrastructure projects include those to be built under the public-private-partnership program [...]

TFM dares Palace on CARPER Not on track but sidetracked

Protesting farmers arrested on Valentine’s Day in Malacanang have challenged Presidential spokesman Edwin Lacierda to prove his claim that the implementation of agrarian reform is on track. The Task Force Mapalad (TFM) asked Lacierda where he got the information that the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program Extension with Reforms (CARPER) [...]

LGU Tudela to make another round of damage assessment in the flashflood-affected barangays

By: Rutchie Cabahug-Aguhob TUDELA, Misamis Occidental, Feb. 16 (PIA) – Another round of damage assessment and needs analysis (DANA) will be done by the local government unit (LGU), here, after yesterday’s repeat of the flash floods that occurred, last Feb. 10. Again, the continuous heavy rains on the night of Feb. 14 resulted in the [...]

Gov’t pours in funds on agriculture to Normin

By Sonia Adecer CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY, Feb. 15 – The Department of Agriculture is committed in bringing interventions of the government towards food sufficiency and stability to the countryside. Hence, Agriculture Secretary Proceso J. Alcala, in his three-day visit to Northern Mindanao, convened mostly farmers and fisherfolks affected by [...]

Agriculture Secretary turns over, inspects agri-projects in Northern Mindanao

By Sonia Adecer CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY, Feb. 15 – Agriculture Secretary Proceso J. Alcala visited Northern Mindanao to turn-over and inspect various agriculture and fishery projects. Likewise. Sec. Alcala conducted a series of farmers and fisherfolks’ forum in Camiguin, Misamis Oriental, Bukidnon and cities of Iligan and Cagayan de Oro. [...]

SPJA turns over, inspects agri-projects in R10

  To bring to the countryside the government’s interventions towards food sufficiency and stability, Agriculture Secretary Proceso J. Alcala visited Northern Mindanao on February 1-3, 2012 to turn-over and inspect various agriculture and fishery projects and to conduct a series of farmers and fisherfolks’ forum in the provinces of [...]