Agriculture
Ex DA chiefs bat for wider use of solar powered irrigation systems
Former Department of Agriculture (DA) secretaries Emmanuel Piñol and Leonardo Montemayor, urged administration officials to establish a nationwide solar power irrigation system (SPIS) to help achieve rice self-sufficiency at price-competitive levels.
Higher NFA palay buying price a win-win for farmers, traders
The government mandate for the National Food Authority (NFA) to increase its palay buying price may not matter much in terms of better retail price for the staple.
Estimated 3Q palay output likely lower at 3.788M metric tons
Palay production in the third quarter, which the government hopes will provide some relief to soaring prices of the food staple, may be lower than the year earlier period, latest estimates by the Philippine Statistics Authority show.
2Q farm imports down 11% on lower cereal, animal feed purchases
The value of farm products the Philippines imported in the second quarter dropped nearly 11 percent year-on-year to $4.32 billion, with the country’s top three agricultural imports—cereals, feed meal, and meat--all recording declines in both volume and value, data from the Philippine Statistics Authority show.
Not enough protection for medicinal plants, trees in PH
The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) said that more focus should be given to advance research and knowledge on medicinal plants and forest trees in the country.
