Some P32 million in crops were lost in Bicol due to widespread flooding spawned by torrential rains brought on by tropical storm Quinta on Wednesday, the Regional Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council said Friday.
COMMERCIAL Corn farmers in Bantayan Island and Argao town are among the main users of the Bacilus Thuringiesis corn (BT) in Central Visayas. The Department of Agriculture is campaign to promote transgenic crops or genetically modified organism (GMO) crops as an option to improve agricultural productivity. Planting GMO crops, however, is a contentious issue worldwide [...]
Record palay and corn harvests fueled the growth of Philippine agriculture by 5.48 percent in the first half of the year, reversing the sector’s negative performance in the same period last year, the Department of Agriculture (DA) said on Tuesday. The agriculture sector’s recovery was good news considering its dismal performance in the first half [...]
Farm damage due to Tropical Depression “Egay” and persistent rains has reached P658 million based on consolidated reports from Regions 3, 10, 11, 12 and the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, according to the Department of Agriculture.
FOR MANY Filipinos, corn is rice’s lowly cousin. But the Department of Agriculture (DA) says Filipinos should not degrade the grain because it has health benefits and could be the ticket to the country attaining food security. The DA revealed on Sunday that it had stepped up production of low-glycemic white corn seedlings to provide [...]
MANILA, Philippines—For those in urban areas and in many parts of the Philippines, corn may not compare to rice as the food of choice. But the Department of Agriculture (DA) said urbanites should not turn up their noses on the grain because of its health benefits and its potential to help the country attain food [...]
