PH misses ’12 farm output growth target
By Niña P. Calleja
The country’s farm output grew by 2.92 percent in 2012, falling short of the government’s growth target of between 3 percent and 5 percent.
The country’s farm output grew by 2.92 percent in 2012, falling short of the government’s growth target of between 3 percent and 5 percent.
The Department of Agriculture is crafting a disaster preparedness, response and rehabilitation program to cushion the destructive impacts of natural disasters, particularly typhoons and floods, on the country’s agriculture and fishery sector.
Last Dec. 13, Department of Agriculture (DA) officials presented a draft Agriculture and Modernization Plan (2011-2017) to the National Agriculture and Fisheries Council (NAFC).
It’s “pancit” from the sea. Nutritious noodles made from seaweed are bringing new hope to poor families in Bicol and raising the incomes of seaweed farmers there, the Bureau of Agricultural Research of the Department of Agriculture said Friday.
President Noynoy Aquino can make a strategic move to save fishers—who are among the poorest in our society—from floods.
After imposing a fishing moratorium that successfully replenished sardine stocks off the Zamboanga Peninsula last year, the Department of Agriculture is to close another major fishing ground in the country for three months starting in December to replenish sardine and tuna stocks.
The prices of canned sardines are not going to come down despite the recent lifting by the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) of a ban on the catching of certain species of fish, industry leaders said Wednesday.
Tuna industry players in Southern Mindanao are hoping for a richer catch in the year of the water dragon despite the declining worldwide tuna harvest due to changes in the climate.
Magnetite mining is threatening Lingayen Gulf and the livelihood of small fishers there.
The government has imposed a three-month closed fishing season on sardines to allow to the fish species to spawn.
Contrary to the claim of a tourism industry official, the labor row at Philippine Airlines may have caused PAL flight cancellations and delays but has not affected the local tuna industry at all, industry players said Thursday.
Agri-Fisheries 2025 (AF 2025) held its mid-year assessment and planning conference last Friday. This took on special significance because of Typhoon Pedring’s recent severe damage to agriculture. It has serious implications on our agriculture, climate change, and the new global scenario. Background AF 2025 was convened by Agriculture Secretary Proceso Alcala, Senate and House of [...]
