Rice farmers tilling farmland of two hectares and below received P5,000 each last week as financial assistance from the government for the second straight year pursuant to the Rice Tarrification…
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The lamentable state of the abaca industry in Catanduanes
Last week’s distribution of P5,000 cash to qualified rice farmers in the province of Catanduanes is pursuant to Section 13 of Republic Act 11203, or the Rice Tariffication Law. Under…
Fiber output decreased by 23% since 2019:
Cat’nes’ abaca production dips to lowest in 10 years
Less than a year after Congress passed a measure declaring the province as the abaca capital of the Philippines, Catanduanes’ abaca fiber production has plunged to its lowest in the…
Here’s how the P69.9-M abaca revitalization project in Catanduanes will be implemented
Following the widespread damage inflicted by super typhoon Rolly on the abaca industry in the Bicol region in November 2020, the Philippine Fiber Industry Development Authority (PhilFIDA) allocated nearly P110…
Supplier will buy P40 million worth of suckers from local abaca farmers
More than 13,000 abaca farmers in Catanduanes will stand to earn from the P69.951-million funding turned over by the Department of Agriculture (DA) to the provincial government last week. About…
DA distributes machinery, agri’l inputs to farmers, schools, LGUs
The Department of Agriculture last week distributed various machineries and equipment to 17 farmers and irrigators associations, as well as various agricultural inputs and assorted vegetable seeds to local government…
Sentinel pigs to be tested for ASF by Aug. 2 – PVet
The nearly 500 sentinel pigs distributed in the province last June 23, 2022 by the Department of Agriculture regional office will have to test negative for Africal Swine Fever (ASF)…
Genetically modified Golden Rice to benefit nearly 200,000 people
Nearly 200,000 Catandunganons, including 29,919 children aged 0-59 months old and 11,963 pregnant and lactating mothers, will be benefited once production of Golden Rice on the island begins. This was…