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Better livelihood opportunity for farmers promoted
Goat raising, a practical business venture requiring low initial capital, is not popular among farmers as a livelihood option due to their lack of proper skills and motivation to improve goat management. To change farmers’ ...
- September 1, 2015
Lake Mainit alliance to protect PH's 4th largest lake
A joint, concerted effort to regulate the exploitation and protect the country’s fourth largest lake – Lake Mainit – has been launched that will be composed of the technical working group (TWG) of the Lake Mainit Development ...
- July 25, 2015
Separate dep't for fisheries pushed
There is a need to create a separate department for the fisheries sector, according to Vice Gov. Raul Tupas, Formerly a regional technical director of the Department of Agriculture (DA). "The Philippines is an archipelago. ...
- March 3, 2016
Aklan SP seeks relief for fishpond operators
The Sangguniang Panlalawigan (SP) approved a resolution asking President Benigno Aquino III to grant fishpond operators in Aklan a five-year recovery period by condoning fishpond rentals. In Resolution No. 010 series of ...
- January 26, 2014
Farm damage from 2 storms hit P565M
The two tropical storms that soaked Metro Manila and the rest of Luzon damaged P565 million worth of crops, the Department of Agriculture (DA) said on Monday. The DA’s Disaster Risk Reduction Management Council (DRRMC) ...
- July 24, 2018
ASEAN-SEAFDEC drawing contest for environment
Four drawings by young Filipino artists will be sent to Thailand for the exhibition of the ASEAN-SEAFDEC member countries' top drawings during the ASEAN-SEAFDEC Conference on Sustainable Fisheries for Food Security Towards ...
- April 25, 2011
Capiz coop gets P5M agri loan; 2 conduits ink deal with ACPC
The Lonoy Agrarian Reform Cooperative (ARC) of Ivisan and Sapi-an, Capiz received P5-million funding from the Department of Agriculture (DA) Agricultural Credit Policy Council (ACPC) on April 11, 2019 during 12th Provincial ...
- April 16, 2019
Government vows stronger crackdown on illegal fishing
Several government agencies have committed to take serious steps against illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing. The Philippine committee (PhilCom) comprised of the Office of the President, the departments of agriculture, ...
- December 23, 2018
PNG wants tuna catch processed domestically
Papua New Guinea (PNG) is seeking to enforce a local-processing rule for all tuna caught in its waters, which is affecting the Philippine tuna fishing fleet, the Department of Agriculture (DA) said. The DA said it is ...
- November 8, 2017
Opportunities emerge from rehab efforts
Communities in areas ravaged by Supertyphoon “Yolanda” in Western Visayas have started to pick up the pieces, but government planners, officials and business leaders are seeing difficulty in reaching full recovery. On the ...
- January 13, 2014