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DA vows to boost fish production
The Department of Agriculture (DA) said that the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) will continue to provide production and production-related interventions and activities that will contribute to the government's ...
- January 22, 2022
Ashfall destroys P578m in coffee, other cash crops, livestocks and infra
The damage from Taal Volcano’s eruption has reached P577.59 million in crops and livestock, with coffee growers hardest hit at P74 million in damages, the Department of Agriculture estimated Tuesday. The Bureau of Fisheries ...
- January 15, 2020
'Quinta' losses: Damage to WV agri, fishery reaches P132M
Typhoon “Quinta” left P132.63 million worth of damage to rice, high-value commercial crops (HVCC) and the fishery sector in the provinces of Western Visayas. Department of Agriculture (DA) regional executive director Remelyn ...
- November 5, 2020
Isabela fish farm reels in success with Landbank support
When Cagayan Valley, one of the country's largest tilapia-producing regions, faced a region-wide shortage of tilapia fingerlings in 1993, business graduate Arnel Santiago decided to establish his own fish hatchery to help ...
- July 24, 2022
$200-M WB funding eyed for fisheries
The Department of Agriculture (DA) is seeking World Bank funding for its $200-million Fisheries and Coastal Resiliency (FishCoRe) project that aims to improve the country’s fishery production. In a statement on Monday, ...
- June 2, 2020
Fishery officials call on youth to seriously consider ‘promising’ career in aquaculture
An international research center is urging more youth to engage themselves in the aquaculture business amid the threat posed by the African swine fever (ASF) to meat supplies in the country. Dan Baliao, chief of the Southeast ...
- April 1, 2021
PCAARRD initiates tilapia farming
An initiative of the Philippine Council for Agriculture, Aquatic and Natural Resources Research and Development of the Department of Science and Technology (DOST-PCAARRD) started making tilapia farming accessible to selected ...
- November 11, 2020
BFAR bares plan to build 300 milkfish fry satellite hatcheries in next 5 years
The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) said it plans to build about 300 satellite hatcheries nationwide in the next five years in its bid to boost local milkfish production. In a news statement issued on ...
- July 29, 2020
Supply shortage prompts sugar, galunggong importation - DA
The Department of Agriculture (DA) has defended its move to import 200,000 metric tons (MT) of refined sugar and 200,000 MT of galunggong, saying that its attached agencies’ data showed supply deficiency of sugar and fish ...
- February 20, 2022
Aqua-fisheries summit to be held
The Mindanao's Aqua and Fisheries Modernization Program takes off next month with the staging of the first stakeholders' summit in Mati City, Davao Oriental, on Aug. 27. Organized by the Davao Oriental Provincial Government, ...
- July 30, 2020