RiceBIS Negros Agrarian Reform Cooperative (RiceBIS NARCO), Sitio Timawa Farming Association (STOFA) and Tison-Aida Farmers Association (TAFA) in Negros Occidental in the Philippines reached a number of stakeholders through the brown rice agro-enterprise day and feeding programme
More than 800...
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The National Irrigation Administration has opened the new P134-million irrigation system in Iloilo City in line with the government’s effort to cover more agricultural areas nationwide.
The P133.85-million Sta. Barbara River irrigation system in Iloilo City will irrigate 2,289 hectares of...
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The expansion of planting areas has improved the growth of some of the country’s top industrial crops in the third quarter, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) reported.
The top industrial crops are coconut, abaca, coffee, rubber, sugarcane and tobacco.
In its latest major non-food...
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Local coconut oil millers are set to buy directly from copra farmers amid the continued drop in mill gate prices of the commodity.
In a recent dialogue with Agriculture Secretary Emmanuel Piñol, coconut oil millers agreed to buy copra from farmers at a mill gate price of P24 per kilogram...
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The country’s biggest banana companies are considering venturing into rice farming as the government continues to look for ways to boost supply of the country’s main staple.
Agriculture Secretary Emmanuel Piñol said the Philippine Banana Growers and Exporters Association (PBGEA...
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A bountiful onion harvest is expected in Bayambang, Pangasinan next year after the Department of Agriculture provided farmers with pesticides to avert another armyworm attack.
Municipal agriculturist Artemio Buezon said red onions planted in October would be harvested by February or March...
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Planters in Bengal tea belt are expecting bright post winter high value first flush output for the consecutive second year due to prevailing favorable weather conditions.
Entire tea belt in Bengal has taken submergence deep under chill. While the mercury at in TeraiNSE 0.00 % and Dooars tea...
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The reaction to Japan leaving the International Whaling Commission (IWC) has been predictable, offering nothing new.
The Australian Government has said it's "extremely disappointed", while UK Secretary of State for the Environment Michael Gove tweeted that Britain would "...