Leviste buys Roxas and Co. shares
Businessman Leandro Antonio L. Leviste has become the largest individual shareholder of sugar firm Roxas and Co. Inc. (RCI).
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Businessman Leandro Antonio L. Leviste has become the largest individual shareholder of sugar firm Roxas and Co. Inc. (RCI).
The Department of Agriculture (DA), the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), and Japan have forged cooperation to restore agri-fishery-based livelihoods and promote climate resiliency among farmers and fishers affected by the onslaught of Typhoon Odette (international name: Rai).
Two agrarian reform beneficiary organizations (ARBOs) from South Cotabato got the much-needed boost from the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR).
PRESIDENT Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. said the country is expected to produce better farm outputs this year with the distribution of 20,000 metric tons of urea fertilizer donated by China.
The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) vowed to strengthen forest management in the Philippines to boost the livelihood of upland dwellers and farmers to help sustain economic development.
Lawmakers have filed a resolution to look over the impact on national palay yields and farmers’ incomes of the over four-decade heavy dependence by farmers on imported synthetic or petroleum-based fertilizers, amid a fresh government push for balanced fertilization or the combined use of both chemical and organic inputs in farming.
President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. has ordered the geomapping of agricultural lands in the country to optimize food production.
SILAY CITY—Batwan, a fruit resembling a tiny green apple, is used mostly as a souring agent in many popular dishes in Western Visayas such as Cansi; KBL (kadyos, baboy, langka); Pinalmahan, among others. The tree is indigenous to the region but difficult to propagate; it can take about two years before a seed grows shoots. As such, most of the fruits that actually make it to the market are found in the wild.
THE 6.4-percent slowdown in growth of gross domestic product (GDP) in the first quarter of 2023 underscores the “urgency” of boosting domestic demand and the economy’s supply response to spur inclusive growth, Ibon Foundation Inc. said.
SANTA BARBARA, Pangasinan—Bounties of the land and of water will be showcased in a five-day product exposition of farmers and fishermen here from March 28 to April 1, an event described by organizers as “a curtain-raiser for the colorful and meaningful Pistay Dayat, dubbed as Pangasinan’s mother of all festivals.”
Of the three major economic sectors – services, industry and agriculture – the latter is probably the most challenged, particularly because one of the challenges – weather disturbances – is beyond human control and often very destructive.
THE farm sector is facing a new threat created by the government itself—the Conditional Cash-Transfer Program, now known as the 4Ps (Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program)—experts said.
THE Department of Agriculture (DA) said on Monday that it consolidated its existing lending programs in order to provide a more convenient and less complex lending schemes to farmers and fishermen.
FARMERS’ groups urged the House of Representatives and the Senate to determine whether a trust fund committee or a government-owned and -controlled corporation (GOCC) would handle the disposal of the P75-billion coconut-levy fund.
BEACAUSE of extreme hunger and poverty, farmers from as far as Mindanao are forced to work in sugarcane plantations in Luzon only to earn a paltry P10 a day, the Unyon ng Manggagawa sa Agrikultura (UMA) said on Thursday.
AS the lifting of the quantitative restriction (QR) on rice is expected to boost government revenues, the state-owned think tank urged the Duterte administration to set aside P18 billion a year to compensate farmers.
AN official of the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) said farmers and fishermen will have the opportunity to submit “uncensored and unadulterated proposals” that will form part of the Philippine Development Plan (PDP) 2017 to 2022.
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