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    • DA acts to ease El Niño effects 

      De Vera, Ellalyn B. (Manila Bulletin, May 16, 2010, on page 11)
      The Department of Agriculture (DA) is about to complete the implementation of mitigation measures to address the effects of El Niño event on this year’s dry cropping season and to keep up with the coming wet cropping season. ...

    • DA allots P1.9B for fisheries 

      Cabrera, Madelaine Faye (Malaya Business Insight, January 10, 2012, on page A8)
      The Department of Agriculture has allocated P 1.9 billion this year to implement in integrated, pro-poor and community-based fisheries and aquaculture program. Agriculture Secretary Proceso J. Alcala said the program aims ...

    • DA allows imports of black tiger shrimps 

      Benaning, Marvyn N. (Manila Bulletin, January 20, 2010, on page B-3)
      Government has allowed the importation of broodstock and post-larvae of black tiger shrimps. The Department of Agriculture (DA), through the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR), has issued three administrative ...

    • DA asks for P218-B budget for 2018 due to Benham Rise work 

      Miraflor, Madelaine B. (Manila Bulletin, May 19, 2017, on page B-11)
      The Department of Agriculture (DA) has pumped up its budget proposal for next year to P218 billion as it intends to seek a separate fund for the protection of Benham Rise, a 25-million hectare shallow continental shelf ...

    • DA assures enough food supply for Metro Manila’s 14-M population 

      Miraflor, Madelaine B.; San Juan, Alexandria Dennise (Manila Bulletin, March 14, 2020, on page 1-8)
      As President Duterte placed Metro Manila under “community quarantine” following the rise in local transmission of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), the country’s top agriculture official assured that Metro Manila, home ...

    • DA boosts seaweed industry, address 'cocolisap' scourge 

      (Manila Bulletin, September 18, 2016, on page 17)
      The national government through the Department of Agriculture (DA) has extended P10.67 million worth of assistance to strengthen the carrageenan industry in the Zamboanga peninsula. Piñol also awarded 50 fiberglass bancas, ...

    • DA completes Central Visayas survey 

      Indino, Phoebe Jen (Manila Bulletin, February 16, 2014, on page 17)
      The Region 7 office of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR-7) has already completed the boundary delineation of protected areas (PA's) in Central Visayas last year. "We finished demarcating and ...

    • DA donates 16-hectare pond to fisheries center 

      (Manila Bulletin, February 3, 1999, on page 16)
      The Department of Agriculture (DA) recently donated a 16-hectare pond here to a government-hosted Southeast Asian Center in Tigbauan, this province. The pond is now used by the Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center ...

    • DA gives assistance to farmers and fishers 

      MBM (Manila Bulletin, March 9, 2015, on page B-12)
      Various sets of equipment were distributed to farmers and fishers within Mindanao region as part of the government's efforts to mechanize the farm sector in order to level up the country's competitiveness and gear for the ...

    • DA gives ₱83-M aid to Bicol agri-fisheries 

      Unite, Betheena Kae (Manila Bulletin, February 9, 2016, on page 13)
      Some agriculture and fishery stakeholders in Bicol Region have received P83.3-million aid through the Department of Agriculture’s (DA) campaign of “bridging the gap and touching the hearts" of the agri-fisheries sector. ...

    • DA hopes to double shrimp output in 5 years 

      Benaning, Marvyn N. (Manila Bulletin, July 10, 2008, on page B-2)
      The Department of Agriculture (DA) hopes to double the country's shrimp production in five years and thus regain its status as a top exporter of Peneaus vannamei of Pacific white shrimp. Agriculture Undersecretary Jesus ...

    • DA lowers year-end growth forecast as typhoons, El Niño wipe out ₱16-B in total farm output 

      Miraflor, Madelaine B. (Manila Bulletin, January 4, 2020, on page 1-6)
      The country’s agriculture sector had so far lost as much as P16 billion worth of 2019’s total farm output to El Niño and several typhoons, with the last minute damages incurred in December alone prompting Agriculture ...

    • DA moves to curb illegal fishing, avert EU ban 

      Cahiles-Magkilat, Bernie (Manila Bulletin, April 8, 2015, on page B-3)
      The Department of Agriculture will conduct its first public hearing for the implementing rules and regulations (IRR) of the Philippine Fisheries Code next week in an effort to implement measures that will curb illegal, ...

    • DA opens Aussie-backed fish hatchery in Mindanao 

      Benaning, Marvyn N. (Manila Bulletin, February 2, 2009, on page 14)
      The Department of Agriculture (DA) has launched a marine finfish hatchery in Misamis Occidental with the assistance of the provincial and Australian governments and the Southeast Asia Fisheries Development Center (SEAFDEC). ...

    • DA pushes Tawi-Tawi, S'gani fishery projects 

      Lacson, Nonoy E. (Manila Bulletin, September 12, 2005, on page G-1)
      The Department of Agriculture (DA) has alloted P15 million for two major fishery projects here and in Sarangani province. Both projects are aimed at boosting the country's food security program of the country, Tawi-Tawi ...

    • DA secretary opposes creation of separate fishieries department 

      Miraflor, Madelaine (Manila Bulletin, September 16, 2016, on page B-5)
      Agriculture chief Emmanuel Piñol said he is against the creation of a separate fisheries department as this would go against President Rodrigo Duterte's call for "effective government" and will require additional expenditure ...

    • DA signs IRR amended Fisheries Code 

      De Vera, Ellalyn B. (Manila Bulletin, September 27, 2015, on page 4)
      The Department of Agriculture (DA) has signed the implementing rules and regulations (IRR) of the amended Philippines Fisheries Code, which reinforces the safeguarding of the country's seas from illegal, unreported and ...

    • DA starts releasing rehab funds in typhoon-hit areas 

      MBM (Manila Bulletin, August 2, 2018, on page B1)
      The Department of Agriculture (DA) began releasing millions worth of rehabilitation funds for agricultural areas that were hit by Tropical Storm Henry and Tropical Depression Josie. As a start, the agency will soon release ...

    • DA to implement fuel discount program for farmers, fishermen 

      (Manila Bulletin, January 27, 2022, on page B-3)
      The Department of Agriculture (DA) is set to implement the “Fuel Discount for Farmers and Fisherfolk Program,” as provided under the Special Provision No. 20 of the General Appropriations Act (GAA) for Fiscal Year 2022 or ...

    • DA to revive Laguna de Bay, other waterways 

      Ruiz, Ellalyn de Vera (Manila Bulletin, May 7, 2017, on page 7)
      The Department of Agriculture (DA) will be re-stocking the Laguna de Bay and other lakes, rivers and creeks with indigenous fish species and non-invasive, commercially viable species to revive the declining fish stocks. ...