Agriculture
DA, DTI, DOE sign joint order doubling special discount for seniors, PWDs
The Department of Agriculture along with the Departments of Trade and Industry and Department of Energy on Thursday signed the joint administrative order that nearly doubles the special five-percent discount granted to senior citizens and persons with disability in the purchase of basic and prime commodities as well as substantially raise the total value of goods they could purchase at a discount.
DA accredits Brazilian, German, Hungarian, Polish meat exporters
The Department of Agriculture has granted a three-year meat exporters' accreditation to Brazil and Germany and some companies in Hungary and Poland following clearances issued by DA Inspection Missions that visited these countries late last year.
New legislation imposes 9-percent excise tax on imported salt
The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) on Tuesday said the newly minted Salt Industry Development Law should further improve the country's 84-percent dependency rate on the imported salt variety.
“Intercropping solves the need to deploys billions of pesos in coco levy fund to benefit farmers”
There is merit for government to set aside a small P600 million portion of the P100 billion coco levy fund in an enterprise that directly benefits coconut farmers, the Philippine Coffee Board Inc. (PCBI) said on Tuesday.
Damage to crops traced to El Nino now over P1.7B
Damage to agriculture resulting from the impact of El Niño surged to P1.75 billion as of latest from only P357.38 million as at 25 February this year, according to the Department of Agriculture.
