Commercial exportation of yellow corn mulled
Agriculture Secretary Arthur C. Yap has announced that the government, for the first time in history, is gearing up for the commercial exportation of...
Slight price increase in meat products seen
The Department of Agriculture (DA) has bared new efforts to increase yields in the livestock, fisheries and poultry subsectors in the face of the...
Fish conservation, management reaffirmed at tuna nat’l summit
Stakeholders of the country’s tuna industry gathered in Gen. Santos City on Friday to discuss strategies to sustain the industry amid a shrinking global...
Stanfilco tops among RP banana exporters
Stanfilco Philippine shipped out a total of 129,400 metric tons during the first quarter of 2009, emerging as the top exporter of export cavendish...
Saving RP’s coconut trade, Angara’s target
Senator Edgardo Angara is renewing his call to the Senate to enact the Coconut Emergency Measure Act (Senate Bill 869) of 2007 to immediately...
Biotechnology institutionalized as a general education course
Local colleges and universities will soon offer biotechnology courses in a move to promote safety of transgenic crops and boost biotechnology education and public...
DA’s anti-poverty program gaining
More than half of the covered towns of the anti-poverty program of the Department of Agriculture in Mindanao have gained results of their investments....
Farm output growth slowest in four years
- Farm output in Q2 up 0.87 pct yr/yr, below govt estimates THE country’s farm output grew at its slowest annual rate in four...
Agri sector generates 2.18 M jobs
PHILIPPINE agriculture generated a total of 2.18 million jobs from 2005 to the first quarter of 2009 as farm productivity expanded by an annual...
NFA intensifies corn purchase from farmers
THE National Food Authority (NFA) is conducting intensive buying of corn in major producing regions as it had earlier committed to do. NFA administrator...