Browsing The Manila Times by Subject "agriculture"

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    • 10,000 dynamite fishing cases recorded everyday 

      (The Manila Times, October 17, 2012, on page A3)
      Lawmakers on Tuesday have expressed their concern over the high number of illegal dynamite fishing cases in the country and has called on the Philippine National Police (PNP) and the local government units to help the ...

    • 2.7K Ilocos Norte farmers, fishers insured for free 

      Philippine News Agency (PNA) (The Manila Times, July 22, 2019, on page A12)
      A total of 2,740 farmers and fisherfolk in Ilocos Norte will get free crop and life insurance coverages, courtesy of the provincial government and the Philippine Crop Insurance Corp. (PCIC). Since July 11, provincial ...

    • Agri chief assures Metro food supplies ‘more than enough' 

      Gomez, Eireene Jairee; Valente, Catherine S. (The Manila Times, March 14, 2020, on page A1-A8)
      The Department of Agriculture (DA) on Friday assured the public that the community quarantine had not affected food supplies for Metro Manila. “We have determined that there is enough supply of all basic goods that can be ...

    • Agri damage from Taal fury reaches P577M 

      Gomez, Eireene Jairee (The Manila Times, January 15, 2020, on page A2)
      Damages and losses to agriculture brought by the eruption of Taal Volcano have hit P577.59 million, according to the Department of Agriculture (DA). The Agriculture department was expecting the fishing sector to be seriously ...

    • Agri dept eyes increased RE use 

      Cariño, Conrad M. (The Manila Times, July 2, 2020, on page B5)
      The Department of Agriculture (DA) will push for the optimization of renewable energy (RE) to grow food using aquaponics and hydroponics technologies. Agriculture Secretary William Dar on Monday received from Weather ...

    • Agri workers can now tap revived P1.28-B fund 

      Gomez, Eireene Jairee (The Manila Times, May 29, 2018, on page B2)
      Farmers and fishermen can now avail themselves of loans from the revived P1.28-billion Agricultural Competitiveness Enhancement Fund (ACEF) to boost production, the Department of Agriculture (DA) said. According to Agriculture ...

    • Agriculture growth picks up to 6% in Q2 

      Alcober, Neil A. (The Manila Times, August 14, 2017, on page B1, B2)
      Agriculture sector growth accelerated in the second quarter as favorable weather boosted harvests, the government reported on Tuesday. The 6.18 percent expansion for April-June is an improvement from the 4.9 percent recorded ...

    • Agriculture output surges 2.87% in Q3 

      Gomez, Eireene Jairee (The Manila Times, November 7, 2019, on page B2)
      The country’s agricultural production increased by 2.87 percent in the third quarter of the year, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) said on Wednesday, surpassing the government’s growth goal of 2 to 2.5 percent. ...

    • 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 ...

    • Agriculture's water problems can become too big. 

      Dar, William (The Manila Times, June 16, 2017, on page B5)
      It may even boil down to the following: store rainwater, by increasing the absorptive capacity of watersheds through reforestation and building more small water storage (impounding) and catchment systems; expand both the ...

    • Agriculture, fisheries top BARMM for investment 

      Jannaral, Julmuniri I. (The Manila Times, October 16, 2019, on page A7)
      The Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) is pushing for agriculture and fisheries as its top industries for foreign and local investments given its vast lands and rich water resources said Minister Abuamri ...

    • BARMM distributes P21-M agri-fishery aid 

      Sumangil, Franz R. (The Manila Times, January 26, 2023, on page A10)
      The Bangsamoro Agriculture Office distributed over P21 million in agri-fishery inputs and equipment to farmers' cooperatives last Sunday, including loans and certificates of land ownership award (CLOAs). As part of the 4th ...

    • BFAR: Fisheries sector to post 2019 recovery 

      Gomez, Eireene Jairee (The Manila Times, December 26, 2018, on page B2)
      The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) expects the country’s fisheries sector to rebound beginning next year on the back of intensified government support for fisherfolk suffering from a lack of post-harvest ...

    • Bicol farmers, fishermen get P31-M in survival aid 

      Alcober, Neil A. (The Manila Times, September 12, 2017, on page B2)
      The Agricultural Credit Policy Council (ACPC) has turned over P31 million worth of credit funds to six Camarines Sur and Catanduanes cooperatives that will serve as lending conduits for the Survival and Recovery (SURE) ...

    • Bong Go: Agri crucial in Filipinos’ recovery from Covid-19 crisis 

      Ismael, Javier Joe (The Manila Times, June 14, 2020, on page A3)
      Sen. Christopher Lawrence “Bong” Go on Saturday called on the Department of Agriculture (DA) to assist more agriculture- and fishery-based micro and small enterprises (MSEs) to boost food security as part of government ...

    • Climate change fund launched 

      Caraballo, Mayvelin U. (The Manila Times, October 22, 2015, on page B1-B2)
      Local government units and community organizations may soon access the P1-billion People’s Survival Fund (PSF) for climate change adaptation projects, the Department of Finance (DOF) announced on Wednesday. Created under ...

    • Community-based project raises farmers, fishers income 

      Galvez, James Konstantin (The Manila Times, March 6, 2014, on page B2)
      More than 11,000 farmers and fisher folk around the country have seen their productivity increase and their incomes rise thanks to a community-based participatory research program initiated by the Bureau of Agricultural ...

    • Cordillera farmers get P700-M agri aid 

      Gomez, Eireene Jairee (The Manila Times, September 24, 2019, on page A5)
      The Department of Agriculture (DA) has provided P700.44 million- worth of project assistance to 42 farmers' associations and cooperatives in the Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR) as part of its effort to increase ...

    • DA eyes more PPPs for farms, fisheries 

      Miguel, Janine Alexis (The Manila Times, November 28, 2023, on page B2)
      The Department of Agriculture is eyeing more public-private partnership (PPP) projects to help boost the local agriculture and fisheries sector and move it toward industrialization. During the PPP forum conducted by the ...

    • DA launches large agriculture projects in Palawan 

      Galvez, James Konstantin (The Manila Times, January 23, 2012, on page A3)
      As part of the government's food self-sufficiency initiative, the Department of Agriculture (DA) has earmarked some P594 million for irrigation projects, farm machinery and fisheries inputs in Palawan. The projects include ...