Browsing by Subject "agricultural sector"

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    • Agri sector dips 1.7% in 2021 

      Talavera, Catherine (The Philippine Star, January 27, 2022, on page B1)
      The country’s agriculture sector fell by 1.7 percent in 2021, mainly driven by declines in the livestock sector. Data from the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) showed that the value of production in local agriculture ...

    • Agri to grow by 4% till 2022 

      Macapagal, Jed (Malaya, March 2, 2020, on page A1)
      Despite a slight slowdown in the country’s agricultural performance last quarter, the Department of Agriculture (DA) is eyeing a progressive annual growth rate of two, three and four percent for this year until 2022. “It ...

    • Agriculture posts 0.6% growth in Q4 

      Gomez, Eireene Jairee (The Manila Times, January 27, 2022, on page B5)
      The country's agriculture sector slightly grew by 0.6 percent in the last quarter of the year, with improved output seen in crops, poultry and fisheries, while livestock continued to drop in production, the government ...

    • Dar: shortage of fish, pork, rice still persists 

      Cruz, Maricel (Manila Standard, June 1, 2022, on page A1-A2)
      Agriculture Secretary William Dar on Tuesday said there is still a shortage in the local production of fish, pork, and rice due in part to years of neglect of agriculture. In an interview on GMA-7, Dar said there was still ...

    • Davao farmers, fisherfolk boosted 

      (Daily Tribune, September 17, 2022, on page B16)
      At least 500 corn farmers and fisherfolk here benefited from a PHP3,000 fuel subsidy extended by the Department of Agriculture in Davao Region. The DA-11 said that farmers and fisherfolk received the subsidy during Thursday’s ...

    • Farmers, fishers to get ₱11 B 

      Leyco, Chino S. (Manila Bulletin, September 17, 2022, on page 1-8)
      The Department of Budget and Management (DBM) said it has earmarked ₱11 billion for the Rice Competitiveness Enhancement Fund (RCEF) as well as assistance to farmers and fisherfolk next year. In a statement, Budget Secretary ...

    • Marcos to develop marine farming 

      Maralit, Kristina (The Manila Times, May 2, 2022, on page A3)
      Former senator and presidential front-runner Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. vowed to develop and promote "mariculture" or marine farming to help fisherfolk recover from the coronavirus pandemic if he is elected president. ...

    • Modernizing agriculture 

      (Manila Standard, December 20, 2019, on page A4)
      The government is finally devoting its time to modernize the country's agriculture sector. Agriculture is probably one of the major underperforming sectors of the economy despite employing 23.5 percent of the country's ...

    • Ursula's damage to agri sector pegged at P571.58M - DA 

      (DailyGuardian, December 28, 2019, on page 7)
      The damage brought by Typhoon Ursula to the agriculture sector has reached more than P500 million, according to the Department of Agriculture (DA). In its typhoon monitoring bulletin, the DA-Disaster Risk Reduction and ...