DA, SMC solidify partnership to ensure food supply, create more jobs in the countryside

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…

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…

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…