Agriculture
Adjusted tobacco prices bred optimism of greater income among farmers this year
Tobacco prices allowed to adjust higher at last year's tripartite consultative conference have bred optimism among farmers in the Ilocos region of better prices for the crop this year, the National Tobacco Administration (NTA) said on Monday.
LLDA raises private firms’ share in Laguna Lake aquaculture area
The Laguna Lake Development Authority has increased by 644 hectares the area in Laguna Lake, the country’s largest fresh water lake, that could be...
Meralco energizes coffee bean processing facility in Bukidnon
One Meralco Foundation (OMF), the corporate social responsibility arm of the Manila Electric Company, has energized the post-harvest coffee bean processing facility of coffee farmers in Talakag, Bukidnon.
Rice experts horrified by Filipinos taking information from social media as scientific fact
Rice experts are aghast that nearly nine in 10 Filipinos obtain what little they know of the staple from social media and taking those information as fact, resulting to a degree of misinformation that worries scientists at the Philippine Rice Research Institute or Philrice.
DA orders transfer of suspended warehousemen’s authority
The Department of Agriculture has ordered the transfer of authority of suspended NFA warehousemen to their deputies to facilitate the reopening of closed NFA warehouses.
