The Department of Agriculture has lifted the temporary ban on domestic and wild birds and their products including poultry meat, day old chicks, eggs and semen originating from the State of Ohio, United States of America.
The Municipality of Teresa in Rizal province, the Pitahaya Farm in Tacloban City and the Masayag Farmers Association in Bohol may be hundreds of kilometers apart, but they share one thing in common: they earned the distinction as winners of the first Compost Producer Achiever’s Award.
The National Food Authority (NFA) has purchased 3.32 million 50-kilo bags of palay as of 5 June this year of which over 3.17 million bags were purchased from rice farmers the past six weeks.
Agriculture Undersecretary Cheryl Marie Natividad-Caballero, who is in-charge of the agency's high-value crops program, is looking to add more spice into Filipino farmers' lives in hopes of duplicating the recent success of onion farmers with those cultivating local garlic, ginger, and shallots.
The Department of Agriculture has ordered a ban on the importation of domestic and wild birds from Australia following outbreaks of the deadly H7N3 and H7N9 avian influenza virus in the state of Victoria.