Department of Agriculture (DA) has distributed 1,000 health kits to its frontline personnel in response to the recent upsurge of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases. “With the cases within Metro Manila and within the department at its all-time high, it was necessary that the frontline personnel, e
A program that seeks to increase the use of renewable energy (RE) systems and technologies in the agriculture and fisheries sector would cost some P8 billion, the Bureau of Agricultural and Fisheries Engineering (BAFE) said. BAFE, an attached agency of the Department of Agriculture (DA), said it needs P7.976 billion…
EASY ACCESS. A drone view of the PHP37-million farm-to-market road that connects the villages of Bugso and Gapok in Sen. Ninoy Aquino, Sultan Kudarat province to markets at the town center. The paved 7.48-kilometer road was funded by the Japan International Cooperation Agency under the Department of Agrarian Reform-Mindanao Sustainable Agrarian and Agriculture Development and completed in February 2021. (File photo courtesy of DAR-Sultan Kudarat) MANILA - Connecting farmlands to markets has always been part of the Department of Agriculture's Bureau of Agricultural and Fisheries Engineering (DA-BAFE) plans to improve and support both sectors. On Tuesday, the DA-BAFE said since 2016, the agency has constructed 2,897 kilometers (km) of farm-to-market road (FMR) projects with a total cost of PHP29.32 billion. Overall during the last 20 years, a total of 49,042 km were constructed, worth PHP146 billion, according to dataobtained bythe Philippine News Agency (PNA). The implementation for
EASY ACCESS. A drone view of the PHP37-million farm-to-market road that connects the villages of Bugso and Gapok in Sen. Ninoy Aquino, Sultan Kudarat province to markets at the town center. The paved 7.48-kilometer road was funded by the Japan International Cooperation Agency under the Department of Agrarian Reform-Mindanao Sustainable Agrarian and Agriculture Development and completed in February 2021. (File photo courtesy of DAR-Sultan Kudarat) MANILA - Connecting farmlands to markets has always been part of the Department of Agriculture's Bureau of Agricultural and Fisheries Engineering (DA-BAFE) plans to improve and support both sectors. On Tuesday, the DA-BAFE said since 2016, the agency has constructed 2,897 kilometers (km) of farm-to-market (FMR) road projects with a total cost of PHP29.32 billion. Overall during the last 20 years, a total of 49,042 km were constructed, worth PHP146 billion, according to dataobtained bythe Philippine News Agency (PNA). The implementation for
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