Agriculture
Bukidnon stakeholders launch concentrated pesticide drive vs destructive sugar pest
The Sugar Regulatory Administration (SRA) confirmed Bukidnon sugar farmers, millers and local officials carried out a one-week intensive spraying campaign to stop the red striped soft scale insect (RSSI), a pest that cuts sugar content by nearly half.
Satellite, AI to guide PH food security strategy
The Department of Agriculture (DA) and Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) have strengthened their partnership to improve how agricultural data is gathered and used across the country.
Experts back decentralized cold chain to curb food waste
The Philippines can strengthen food security not by simply building more cold storage, but by bringing cold chain infrastructure closer to farms, expanding shared logistics, and using digital tools to move food more efficiently, according to logistics experts.
Agricultural imports rise, narrow trade deficit
The Philippines' agricultural trade deficit narrowed in May as double-digit export growth was magnified by slower import growth.
DA rolls out mechanical dryers ahead of 2027 wet season rice harvest
The Department of Agriculture (DA) is set to complete the distribution of 380 mechanical drying systems across the country in time for the 2027 wet season harvest — the largest deployment of such facilities in the nation’s history.
