LandBank, UP broaden support for students through digital finance, scholarships

MANILA – The Land Bank of the Philippines (LandBank) and the University of the Philippines (UP) have expanded their partnership to provide financial assistance, digital banking services, transportation support, and career opportunities for students.The two institutions formalized the expanded cooperation through a memorandum of agreement signed Sept. 14 at UP Diliman in Quezon City by LandBank President and Chief Executive Officer Lynette Ortiz and UP President Angelo Jimenez.Under the agreeme...

Antique dads approve cultivation of Golden Rice

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February 21, 2023

Antique dads approve cultivation of Golden Rice

PNASAN JOSE DE BUENAVISTA, Antique – The Antique provincial board during their regular session on Monday approved the resolution promoting the cult...

SINAG: Onion farmgate, retail price gap must be addressed

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February 21, 2023

SINAG: Onion farmgate, retail price gap must be addressed

PNAMANILA – The gap in onion prices between the farmgate and retail prices must be addressed, according to the Samahang Industriya ng Agrikultura (...

DA crafts strategy plan for hybrid rice production

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February 18, 2023

DA crafts strategy plan for hybrid rice production

PNAMANILA – The Department of Agriculture (DA) is crafting a strategy plan for the local production of hybrid rice to increase crop yields in the c...

SRA to protect sugar farmers' welfare: guv

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February 17, 2023

SRA to protect sugar farmers' welfare: guv

PNABACOLOD CITY – Negros Occidental Governor Eugenio Jose Lacson said on Thursday he believes officials of the Sugar Regulatory Administration (SRA...

Over 2.7K farmers in Zambales get fertilizer discount vouchers

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February 17, 2023

Over 2.7K farmers in Zambales get fertilizer discount vouche...

PNACITY OF SAN FERNANDO, Pampanga – A total of 2,709 farmers in Zambales have received fertilizer discount vouchers from the Department of Agricult...

Batangas, Oriental Mindoro farmers receive dairy goats

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February 17, 2023

Batangas, Oriental Mindoro farmers receive dairy goats

PNAMANILA – A total of 119 Anglo-Nubian dairy goats were distributed to 18 farmer-beneficiaries in the provinces of Batangas and Oriental Mindoro ...

PBBM admin pushes hybrid seeds to boost rice production

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February 17, 2023

PBBM admin pushes hybrid seeds to boost rice production

DA-NEWSA strategy plan is now being developed by the Department of Agriculture (DA) that will promote the planting of hybrid seeds to 1.5 million hect...

Sugar smugglers thwarted, charged with agri smuggling cases

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February 17, 2023

Sugar smugglers thwarted, charged with agri smuggling cases

DA-NEWSUnder the revitalized anti-smuggling campaign of the administration of President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr., the Department of Agriculture – Off...

4 years since rice tariffication: Farmers' income per hectare shrank by 40%

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February 16, 2023

4 years since rice tariffication: Farmers' income per h...

PHILSTARMANILA, Philippines — A research and advocacy group has renewed the call to junk the Rice Liberalization Law, saying it has failed to deli...

DA, FAO boost cooperation to raise agri yield

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February 16, 2023

DA, FAO boost cooperation to raise agri yield

PNAMANILA – The Department of Agriculture on Wednesday said it will intensify its longstanding collaboration with the United Nations’ Food and Ag...

La Trinidad farmers urged to adopt elevated strawberry farming

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February 16, 2023

La Trinidad farmers urged to adopt elevated strawberry farmi...

PNABAGUIO CITY – The municipal government of La Trinidad has urged farmers to adopt elevated strawberry farming to produce three times their regula...