Browsing The Manila Times by Subject "financial institutions"

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    • $200-M WB funding eyed for fisheries 

      Gomez, Eireene Jairee (The Manila Times, June 2, 2020, on page B2)
      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, ...

    • DA okays P246-M loans for small farmers, fishermen 

      Gomez, Eireene Jairee (The Manila Times, April 23, 2020, on page B2)
      The Department of Agriculture (DA) has approved an initial P246.3 million in loans for small farmers and fishermen, and agri-fishery micro and small enterprises (MSEs), under its Expanded Survival and Recovery Assistance ...

    • DA releases funds for agricultural loans 

      Galvez, James Konstantin (The Manila Times, February 24, 2014, on page A6)
      The Department of Agriculture (DA) has recently released a P1billion fund through a flexible credit facility to provide agricultural loans to marginalized farmers and fisherfolk in the poorest provinces across the country. ...

    • Farmers, fishermen get P3-B Landbank loans 

      Gomez, Eireene Jairee (The Manila Times, July 15, 2020, on page B1-B2)
      Land Bank of the Philippines (LandBank) reported on Tuesday that it released P3.02 billion in loans to farmers and fishermen as of end-June to help them increase their productivity and incomes. In a statement, the state-run ...

    • Laguna de Bay in desperate need of rehab 

      Mariano, Dan (The Manila Times, September 24, 2010, on page A4)
      Sunday marks the first anniversary of Typhoon Ondoy, known elsewhere as Ketsana. In just six hours or so that day, Metro Manila and nearby provinces experienced a month’s worth of rainfall. Flashfloods inundated large ...

    • LandBank to triple lending to farmers, fishers over next 6 yrs 

      Caraballo, Mayvelin U. (The Manila Times, December 29, 2016, on page B2)
      To accomplish this goal, Buenaventura said he will initiate a “reengineering” of the credit facilities for small stakeholders in the agriculture sector, and encourage them to enter into “corporatives.” Under his proposal, ...