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RP shrimp farmers to raise antibiotic-free shrimps
Armed with the latest technologies in shrimp culture, the country's shrimp growers hope to regain its position in the world's top prawn producers by committing to produce antibiotic-free shrimps grown only in environment-friendly ...
- July 14, 2002
[ The Department of Agriculture (DA) celebrates its 118th Anniversary ]
The Department of Agriculture (DA) celebrates its 118th Anniversary with its vital role in nation building more marked than ever. Mandated to promote agricultural and fisheries development and growth, the DA has been at ...
- June 23, 2016
Seaweed industry assured of market
Local seaweed products are assured of a steady market in the United States as the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced that carrageenan, a seaweed-derived substance will remain in its list of approved additives ...
- April 23, 2018
Agri output rebounds
Agriculture output grew 5.28 percent in the first quarter compared with a year ago, rebounding from a contraction in the previous quarter largely due to good weather, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) said yesterday. ...
- May 16, 2017
Pollution alarms Panay prawn growers
A group of prawn growers here, alarmed over the mass death of prawns worth million of pesos reportedly due to prawn virus, water pollution, and chemicals has asked the Department of Public Works and Highways and the ...
- March 24, 1992
Govt looks for typhoon-free sites for food production
The Department of Agriculture (DA) yesterday said that it plans to look for relatively typhoon-free sites to be developed as new food production areas following Nina's extensive damage to agriculture last month. Agriculture ...
- January 5, 2017
What's going on in Benham Rise?
The decision of the Duterte government to allow Chinese scientists to do research in Benham Rise, renamed Philippine Rise, a 13-million-hectare undersea region off the provinces of Isabela and Aurora has generated heated ...
- January 29, 2018
DA disperes 130,00 fish fingerlings in Caraga
To increase livelihood opportunities and income of fishers in Mainit, Surigao del Norte, the Department of Agriculture and the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources in Caraga have dispersed 60,00 bangus and 70,00 carp ...
- January 17, 2018
Fishery school on air
Whenever education is mentioned, the four corners of a classroom is the first thing that comes to mind. After all, when you've spent 16 or so years learning in a classroom, the association is almost a knee-jerk reaction. ...
- December 3, 2010
Top performer fisheries play second fiddle
Vietnam is looking forward to earning $12 billion from fisheries by 2020 while the Philippines currently earns just $500 million. “Something is wrong,” said marine scientist Rafael Guerrero at a regional scientific conference ...
- May 25, 2017