Author: DA Communications Group | 24 April 2020 Given the ‘new normal’ scenario, the Department of Agriculture (DA) from hereon will partner strongly with the private sector, particularly with agribusiness conglomerates like San Miguel Corporation (SMC) that committed to buy various products from farmers and fishers to ensure the steady supply of adequate, accessible continue reading…
Government’s efforts ensure welfare of farmers, consumers (repost)
Author: DA-AFID | 24 April 2020 In line with ensuring adequate, accessible and affordable food for all affected by the Enhanced Community Quarantine (ECQ), the Department of Agriculture (DA) continues to safeguard the welfare of farmers and fishers, who labor tirelessly in the farms and fishing grounds. “As we ensure enough food for every continue reading…
DA to lure millennials as agri ‘frontliners’ (repost)
Author: DA Communications Group | 24 April 2020 Looking at young millennials as the future of Philippine agriculture, the Department of Agriculture (DA) is set to engage 900 fresh graduates (batch 2019-2020) as ‘frontliners’ to assist as implementers of agriculture programs in each congressional district nationwide. “We need young blood in agriculture. They have continue reading…
DA Chief: We have enough food, amid extended ECQ (repost)
Author: DA Communications Group | 24 April 2020 Agriculture Secretary William D. Dar reassures all Filipino families that the country has enough food supply. “We made the assurance during last night’s meeting with President Rodrigo Duterte, after he formally extended the enhanced community quarantine in Metro Manila and other regions in Luzon,” the DA continue reading…
Farmers, fishers to get social amelioration from DA, DSWD (repost)
Author: DA Communications Group | 23 April 2020 Agriculture Secretary William D. Dar clarified that qualified farmers and fishers will also receive social amelioration from the government during the enhanced community quarantine. “The Department of Agriculture under the Financial Subsidy for Rice Farmers (FSRF) will distribute P5,000 each to rice farmers, who till one continue reading…
DA gains more partners in ‘Kadiwa’ direct marketing of farm products (repost)
Author: DA Communications Group | 23 April 2020 Several companies and institutional buyers are now partnering with the Department of Agriculture (DA), particularly in its ‘Kadiwa ni Ani at Kita’ marketing program, where farm products are bought on a wholesale basis from farmers and retailed to consumers on affordable prices in Metro Manila and continue reading…
Food vehicles should only have three personnel (repost)
Author: DA Communications Group | 22 April 2020 Agriculture Secretary William D. Dar reiterated that the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Disease (IATF-EID) only allows three passengers on board food vehicles carrying fresh produce or farm inputs and implements essential for food production and processing. “Food vehicles, haulers, delivery vans continue reading…
‘Kadiwa Diskwento Karavan’ rolls out as one-stop shop to benefit consumers (repost)
Author: DA Communications Group | 21 April 2020 The Department of Agriculture (DA) and the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) launched a joint market intervention called the ‘Kadiwa Diskwento Karavan,’ serving hundreds of families at Greenheights Gym, in Barangay Nangka, Marikina City, on April 21, 2020. The combined DA’s Kadiwa ni Ani at continue reading…