On August 11, 2022, the National Banner Program Committee on High Value Crops-Fruits and Vegetables passed a policy resolution, recommending the Bureau of Plant Industry (BPI) to include inventory shrinkage rates of onion and garlic in their monitoring reports. BPI regularly monitors onion and garlic supply in cold and dry storages nationwide. Currently, these include continue reading…
In line with the implementation of the Intensified Community-Based Dairy Enterprise Development (ICBDED) Project, the Philippine Council for Agriculture and Fisheries (PCAF) conducted an onsite monitoring on the status of dairy goats distributed to recipient-organizations in the Province of Isabela on June 27 to July 1, 2022. Together with the technical staff from the National continue reading…
The National Banner Program Committee on Poultry, Livestock, and Corn (NBPC on PLC) discussed the updates on the supply outlook, prices, and importation volume of major poultry and livestock commodities, feeds, and animal feed ingredients in their special meeting on July 29, 2022. The National Livestock Program (NLP) presented the food supply outlook (local production continue reading…
The Committee on Gender Equality and Social Inclusion (GESI), in its second regular meeting on July 22, 2022, passed a policy resolution recommending to the Registry System for Basic Sectors in Agriculture-National Program Management Office (RSBSA-NPMO) the conduct of a massive information, education and communication campaign on the importance of RSBSA. It aims to create continue reading…
In its third quarter meeting on July 12, 2022, the Committee on International Trade discussed the outcomes of the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) 12th Ministerial Conference (MC12) in Geneva on June 12-17, 2022. Ministers, representing WTO’s 164 members, reviewed the multilateral trading system and made statements for taking action on the future efforts of WTO. continue reading…
In celebration of the nine wonderful years of transforming Philippine Agriculture through broad-based participatory governance, the Philippine Council for Agriculture and Fisheries hosted an online Knowledge Unloading Day (KUD) on the Full-Blown Impact Assessment on the Agriculture and Fisheries Modernization Act (FBIA on AFMA) on June 29, 2022. The KUD aims to disseminate the results continue reading…
The National Banner Program Committee on Poultry, Livestock, and Corn (NBPC on PLC) recommended the crafting of a National Biosecurity Protocol and the establishment of DA quarantine facilities for imported animals to strengthen the country’s protection against transboundary animal diseases in their meeting on June 30, 2022. The National Biosecurity Protocol would aid in addressing continue reading…
In line with the mainstreaming of Gender and Development (GAD) in the Philippine Council for Agriculture and Fisheries’ (PCAF) programs, activities and projects, the agency conducted a virtual Knowledge Unloading Day (KUD) on the study “Enhancing Gender Outcomes of Different Rice Related Agencies through Gender Analysis of Rice Supply Chain and Advocacies” on June 30, continue reading…
