Agriculture
Filipino rice farmers earn P10,836 for 4 months’ work
Filipino rice farmers in 2022 earned an average P10,836 for every hectare—an income that requires frontloaded investment and a waiting period of up to four months highly at risk to weather changes.
Stakeholders seek BAI clarity on ASF, AI vaccines
The Bureau of Animal Industry is making sure the proposed vaccine against the African swine fever (ASF) and avian influenza (AI) proceed without problems when these are finally launch.
Rice, corn grain production shortfall this year seen minimal – USDA
The country's production of milled grains as rice and corn this year should prove only minimally lower than target, the United States Department of...
Economic managers weigh options on imminent lifting of rice price cap
Economic Planning Secretary Arsenio Balisacan said the government is looking at other options to shield consumers from exorbitantly priced rice as it prepares to...
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.
