PRESS RELEASE The COVID-19 pandemic underscored the importance of food security, food-related business, self-sufficiency and urban farming. Today, farming and agriculture have become viable business opportunities known as agripreneurship. This concept proved to be a major draw among the younger generation to invest in a future in agriculture and fisheries-related enterprises. Giving access to dialogues continue reading…
With farmers gradually moving away from rubber cultivation due to prolonged low prices of natural rubber (NR), the National Banner Program Committee on High Value Crops-Rubber deliberated on a sustainable price mechanism (SPM) during its third quarter meeting on September 13, 2021. The Department of Trade and Industry-Zamboanga Peninsula noted that SPM could help mitigate continue reading…
“Nasaan ang Tuna?” This was the problem raised by Francisco Buencamino, Executive Director of the Tuna Canners Association of the Philippines (TCAP), as he identified a specific issue that the supposed Technical Working Group (TWG) for the National Tuna Management Plan (NTMP) could help address. Buencamino said that 2020 was a bad year for the continue reading…
The Department of Budget and Management (DBM) confirmed on August 23, 2021 that the Philippine Council for Agriculture and Fisheries (PCAF) “complied with the Fiscal Year 2019 Performance-Based Bonus (PBB) requirements and qualified for the grant of the bonus”. In a letter signed by DBM’s OIC Undersecretary and Chairperson of Administrative Order 25 Inter-Agency Task continue reading…
With the rising losses in agriculture and fisheries production due to climate change and the African Swine Fever (ASF), the Philippine Council for Agriculture and Fisheries (PCAF) held the Agricultural and Fishery Council (AFC) Luzon B Congress on August 18, 2021. Luzon B is composed of CALABARZON (Cavite, Laguna, Batangas, Rizal, and Quezon), MIMAROPA (Occidental continue reading…
According to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, in the last 20 years, the Philippine’s global ranking in fisheries and aquaculture production had fallen due to unsustainable management systems and structures The Philippine government’s medium-term response was the implementation of the Comprehensive National Fisheries Industry Development Plan (CNFIDP), prepared by the Bureau of Fisheries continue reading…
Department of Agriculture (DA) Secretary William Dar led a meet and greet with the Regional Agricultural and Fishery Council (RAFC) Chairperson Emeriti and newly-appointed RAFC Executive Committee Chairpersons on August 3, 2021, through an online meeting. This activity provided a chance for RAFCs to get to know more about the Agriculture Secretary and his thrusts, continue reading…
The Agricultural and Fishery Councils (AFCs) from Luzon A Cluster adopted various policy resolutions on July 22 as a support to the Department of Agriculture’s (DA) programs and projects and to tailor-fit the requirements of the cluster regions in response to the implementation of agri-fishery reforms of the Department. Luzon A Cluster Congress was participated continue reading…
