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THE Department of Agriculture-Regional Field Office 2 (Cagayan Valley) is into scaling up the application of the modified planting calendar, and precision and digital farming using drones.
CASH ASSISTANCE. Farmer-beneficiaries in the Municipality of Sibalom receive their cash assistance from the Department of Agriculture (DA) in Antique at the municipal gymnasium on March 18, 2022. Sonie Guanco, DA Agricultural Program Coordinating Office (APCO) officer-in-charge, said on Tuesday (April 5) that more than 33,000 farmers from the province each received PHP5,000 cash assistance under the Rice Tariffication Law.(Photo courtesy of Sibalom Municipality) SAN JOSE DE BUENAVISTA, Antique - Around PHP165.6 million cash assistance has been released by the Department of Agriculture (DA) to 33,118 farmer-beneficiaries to purchase needed rice seeds, fertilizers, and other farm chemicals. Sonie Guanco, DA Agricultural Program Coordinating Office (APCO) officer-in-charge here, said in an interview Tuesday that each of the recipients received PHP5,000 during the March 14 to 30 payout. There were 34,333 targeted recipient farmers in the province. The assistance to recipients, or rice farm
DESTRUCTION. A rice farm in Antique province damaged by Typhoon Odette on December 17, 2021. Office of Provincial Agriculture (OPA) planning officer II Serafin Yanga said on Wednesday (Dec. 22, 2021) that the agri-fishery damage caused by Typhoon Odette has reached PHP143 million.(Photo courtesy of NCIP Antique) SAN JOSE DE BUENAVISTA, Antique - The Department of Agriculture (DA) in this province has given the go-signal to distribute 600 bags of certified seeds as replanting materials to farmers in the wake of Typhoon Odette's devastation. Arlene De Los Reyes, Office of the Provincial Agriculture (OPA) seed coordinator, said in an interview on Wednesday that farmers in the Municipality of Sebaste through their Municipal Agriculture Office (MAO) have received 70 bags of certified seeds. "We have an initial 600 bags of certified seeds from DA Regional Office 6 (Western Visayas) to be distributed to the farmers," she said. She said the certified seeds, supposedly buffer stoc
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY, May 8 (PIA) Amid challenges brought about by coronavirus disease (COVID)-19 pandemic and African Swine Fever (ASF), the Department of Agriculture (DA)-10 has come up with strategies in ensuring that the agri-fishery sector will get optimum support in attaining food security.
“The focus of the present administration emphasizing on the whole-of-government approach aims to achieve the vision of a food-secure and resilient Philippines with prosperous farmers and fisherfolk,” DA-10 Regional Director Carlene Collado said during the CORDS-X Podcast with Communications Sec. Martin Andanar, May 8.
In celebration of the Farmers’ and Fisherfolk Month, DA-10 held the groundbreaking ceremony of the poultry house in Dalwangan, Malaybalay City (May 3) and the Solar-Powered Irrigation System in Manolo Fortich, Bukidnon (May 4).