Some 4,000 hectares of land in two military camps in Bukidnon and Nueva Ecija will be converted into coffee and bamboo plantations under the government’s National Greening Program (NGP), environment officials said Tuesday.
A leader of a farmers’ group has accused the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) of sabotaging the audit ordered by the Supreme Court (SC) on the financial status of Hacienda Luisita Inc. (HLI) after the process was delayed by more than a year.
A lawmaker has filed a bill establishing the Philippine Mango Industry Development Authority (PMIDA) to adopt a comprehensive program to revitalize mango production, processing and marketing in the country.
In 2011, there were at least 15,000 persons based in Metro Manila who were employed in the agriculture sector, according to recent data from the National Statistical Coordination Board. Schatzi Quodala, Inquirer Research
Three Chinese farmers were held for operating an illegal pork business selling meat from pigs that died of disease, state media said Monday, the latest in a series of food scandals to hit China.
President Benigno Aquino III reiterated his previous announcement of rice self-sufficiency in the Philippines by yearend when he went on a second campaign sortie for the local candidates of the Liberal Party in the Quezon province on Monday.
Agriculture sector leaders on Friday said the government needs to work harder after customs officials seized Vietnam rice shipments worth P1.2 billion that were slipped through a Cebu port this week.
Preliminary work will start to develop Bukidnon and three other provinces into agritourism areas by a company led by agribusiness leader Antonio Tiu.
He’s a green thumb par excellence in these parts.
Businessman Antonio Tiu of AgriNurture Inc., the first and only purely agricultural company listed on the Philippine Stock Exchange (PSE), must really know what he was talking about when he said that there’s money in agriculture.
The academic community is pushing for agri-tourism as a key to economic growth.
Predicting the arrival of a storm is no easy task even for meteorologists.
To Chinese professor Yuan Longping, the acknowledged developer of hybrid rice and a 2001 Magsaysay awardee for government service, rice wastage should be condemned and must be considered a crime.
