Browsing Manila Standard by Name "Dar, William"

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    • Agriculture dips 1.7% on reduced livestock output 

      Campos, Othel (Manila Standard, January 27, 2022, on page B4)
      Agriculture and fisheries production dropped 1.7 percent in 2021 from the previous year, as the sector contended with livestock diseases and the devastation left by Typhoon Odette, data from the Philippine Statistics ...

    • Ashfall destroys P578m in coffee, other cash crops, livestocks and infra 

      Campos, Othel V.; Araja, Rio N.; Zurbano, Joel E.; Casas, Willie (Manila Standard, January 15, 2020, on page A1-A2)
      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 ...

    • DA expects 2.5% growth in farm, fishery sector in 2021 

      Campos, Othel V. (Manila Standard, December 31, 2020, on page B4)
      The Department of Agriculture expects a modest growth of 2.5 percent in agriculture next year, faster than the 1-percent increase this year amid the pandemic. Agriculture Secretary William Dar said in a year-end report ...

    • DA-BFAR to help backyard hog raisers in QC 

      (Manila Standard, February 20, 2021, on page A4)
      The Department of Agriculture-Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) has offered an alternative livelihood to backyard hog raisers in Quezon City affected by the African swine fever (ASF) outbreak. “This is to ...

    • Dar expects agriculture to post modest growth of 2% 

      Campos, Othel V. (Manila Standard, February 1, 2020, on page B1)
      Agriculture Secretary William Dar expects the agriculture sector to post a modest growth of 2 percent in 2020. “We are confident that we can attain a two-percent growth this year, that in turn will help fuel a higher ...

    • Dar is Seafdec AQD speaker 

      (Manila Standard, July 9, 1998, on page 16)
      Acting Agriculture Secretary William Dar is the guest speaker in today's program marking the celebration of the 25th anniversary of the Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center Aquaculture Department (Seafdec AQD).

    • Dar sees agriculture growth of 3% to 5% 

      Campos, Othel V. (BusinessWorld, September 25, 2019, on page B1)
      Agriculture Secretary William Dar plans to expand agriculture by as much as 3 percent to 5 percent before his three-year term ends. Dar also enjoined all local government units and provincial governments to support the ...

    • Dar: shortage of fish, pork, rice still persists 

      Cruz, Maricel (Manila Standard, June 1, 2022, on page A1-A2)
      Agriculture Secretary William Dar on Tuesday said there is still a shortage in the local production of fish, pork, and rice due in part to years of neglect of agriculture. In an interview on GMA-7, Dar said there was still ...

    • Modernizing agriculture 

      (Manila Standard, December 20, 2019, on page A4)
      The government is finally devoting its time to modernize the country's agriculture sector. Agriculture is probably one of the major underperforming sectors of the economy despite employing 23.5 percent of the country's ...

    • P509-m agri-border control facility to rise in Subic 

      (Manila Standard, November 30, 2021, on page A3)
      The Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority (SBMA) and the Department of Agriculture (DA) signed a memorandum of agreement (MOA) for the establishment of a control facility for fresh and frozen agri-fishery commodities entering ...