In celebration of the National Women’s Month, the Philippine Council for Agriculture and Fisheries (PCAF) conducted a two-session virtual workshop on Women Empowerment with the theme “ Juan/a Laban sa Pandemya: Kaya!” on March 12, 2021. The online interactive workshop, participated by more than 90 PCAF employees and its private sector-partners, aimed to help the continue reading…
NBPC Rubber Committee commends TESDA for revised Rubber Production NC II
Almost a decade after the first promulgation of the Training Regulations on Rubber Production (TRRP) National Certificate (NC) II, the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) presented to the private sector-partners and concern government offices the approval of the Amended TRRP NC II on March 11, 2021. In the first quarterly meeting of the continue reading…
PCAF clarifies role on private sector’s position on DA’s withdrawal of tariff reduction
The Philippine Council for Agriculture and Fisheries (PCAF) clarifies recent articles mentioning that the agency is “proposing” to the Department of Agriculture (DA) to withdraw its position to cut tariff rates on imported pork. Although there is such a petition, it is the industry’s private sector-partners who proposed the reduction of tariff on pork and continue reading…
Private sector-partners push for withdrawal of DA’s proposal on tariff reduction on pork and rice
The Philippine Council for Agriculture and Fisheries (PCAF) conducted a virtual consultation on the proposed tariff modification on rice and pork importation on February 2, 2021, to gather inputs, suggestions, and reactions from the private stakeholder partners on the tariff adjustment proposal that the Department of Agriculture (DA) submitted to the tariff commission. During the continue reading…
PCAF holds First NAF Council meeting for 2021
The Philippine Council for Agriculture and Fisheries (PCAF) staged a combined face-to-face and online National Agriculture and Fisheries (NAF) Council meeting on January 21, 2021, at the conference room of the Department of Agriculture-PCAF New building in Quezon City. NAF Council is the apex consultative and advisory body of the DA, which is composed continue reading…
PCAF ensures continuous consultations with A&F private sector-partners amid allegations
Contrary to the allegations that the Philippine Council for Agriculture and Fisheries (PCAF) has not consulted and involved private sectors in various dialogues on issues and concerns affecting the agriculture and fisheries sector, PCAF releases total number of resolutions from the private sector-partners passed from 2020 to January 2021. PCAF is an attached agency continue reading…
Agri-fishery sector-partners support DA’s price control measures through policy reso
Members of the National Agriculture and Fisheries (NAF) Council, which is composed of key government agencies, local government units, private sector entities, non-government organizations, and people’s organizations, expressed their support on the Department of Agriculture’s (DA) price control strategies by adopting NAF Council Resolution No. 1 Series of 2021 during the combined face-to-face and continue reading…
Regional AFCs monitor hog and pork prices down to brgy. level to trace gap
To trace the sharp increase of pork prices in Metro Manila, the regional Agricultural and Fishery Councils (AFCs) are closely monitoring and comparing hog farmgate and pork prices at the regional, provincial, municipal and even at the barangay level. The monitoring report, which is consolidated by the Philippine Council for Agriculture and Fisheries (PCAF), aims continue reading…