‘AGRI-BUSINESS’ Archives
Province receives fund to boost farm output
THE DEPARTMENT of Agriculture (DA) has allotted P74 million for Camarines Norte to increase the crop and fishery production and income of farmers and rural folk, a Cabinet official said. (more...)
Corn yield value seen to rise
KORONADAL -- The volume of corn harvest in South Cotabato is expected to rise as harvest season nears, an Agriculture official said on Friday. (more...)
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 [...]
