Agriculture
PPP coffee project seeks to overturn abysmal Robusta bean production
The government and Nestlé Philippines are raising Robusta coffee together in a Mindanao plantation that should produce 1,000 kilos of the beans per hectare by 2027.
Customs foils P150-M refined sugar import
The Bureau of Customs has foiled an attempt to smuggle over 30,000 sacks of refined sugar declared as something else at the Subic Bay Freeport Zone in Olongapo City, Zambales.
Initial batch of sugar imports seen easing retail price in two weeks
The first of three shipments totaling 440,000 metric tons of sugar has arrived and expected to cut the price of the commodity significantly over the next two weeks.
PhilRice distributing 4.27 million inbred rice seed bags
The Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice) is distributing 4.27 million bags of inbred rice seeds and widened the program to cover 77 rice-producing provinces instead of only 42.
$150 million expected from durian shipments to China
Durian exports to China are seen yielding as much as $150 million, or P8.29 billion, in export receipts this year alone, according to the Bureau of Plant Industry (BPI).
