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The Department of Agriculture- Agricultural Credit Policy Council released over P5.39 billion worth of loans to agricultural stakeholders last year, in line with its mandate of promoting effective and sustainable delivery of financial services to the countryside.
THE Department of Agriculture (DA) has sounded the alarm that the country may suffer from a “critical” shortage of farmers in just 12 years due to declining employment in the agriculture sector worsened by aging farmers. Speaking to aspiring young lawyers and law advocates, Agriculture Secretary William D. Dar emphasized…
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The agency has just launched the AgriKonek app–a downloadable front-end application where “agripreneurs” can post their products, quantity of their produce, price, and other production information.
Thanks to this virtual venue, potential buyers or clients can see the farmers and fishers conveniently and make their orders online. This is very similar to the way that shopping is done in urban centers these days, with buyers either too busy or too frightful to catch the coronavirus disease (COVID-19).
“With the launching of this new technology, we are hoping to attract more young blood to give the Philippine agriculture a second look, and consider to start a journey of not only becoming agripreneurs, but also partners in national development,” DA Secretary William Dar said in a statement Wednesday, Feb. 17.