PCAF convenes corn and feed crop industry stakeholders in Isabela for the first NSC and AFC Encounter Meeting

The Philippine Council for Agriculture and Fisheries (PCAF) brought together key players in the corn and feed crops industry for a two-day encounter meeting in Isabela. The event, held on August 28-29, 2024 in Ilagan, Isabela, aimed to strengthen collaboration between two of PCAF’s consultative bodies—the National Sectoral Committee on Corn and Feed Crops (NSC continue reading…

Gov’t agencies, PCAF Nat’l Sectoral Committees review commodity industry roadmaps

Together with the Philippine Council for Agriculture and Fisheries and other Department of Agriculture (DA) attached agencies and bureaus, the National Sectoral Committees (NSCs) on Corn and Poultry and Livestock reviewed the implementation status of their respective commodity industry roadmaps on August 30 to 31, 2023. On the review of the Philippine Yellow Corn Roadmap, continue reading…

NBPC on Corn recommends improvements to support 1.16M Filipino corn farmers

More than 1.16 million Filipino farmers depend on corn production as their main source of livelihood. This was according to the presentation of Department of Agriculture-National Corn Program (DA-NCP) Director U-Nichols Manalo during the National Banner Program Committee (NBPC) on Corn’s online special meeting on February 10, 2023. Dir. Manalo emphasized the importance of corn continue reading…

NBPC-PLC recommends safeguard measures in CIR, discusses updates on ASF and other pressing industry matters

The National Banner Program Committee on Poultry, Livestock, and Corn (NBPC- PLC) crafted a policy recommending to the Department of Agriculture (DA) to ensure the active and direct involvement of the private sector in the development of commodity industry roadmap (CIR) on June 29, 2021. Members of the NBPC-PLC also included in the recommendation the continue reading…

Pork industry stakeholders converge to address pressing matters in PH pork industry

The Philippine Council for Agriculture and Fisheries (PCAF) conducted a virtual meeting on January 13, 2021, between the government and private sector-partners through the National Banner Program Committee (NBPC) on Poultry, Livestock, and Corn to discuss pricing and supply issues as well as other concerns faced by the pork industry. During the meeting, both private continue reading…

NBPC-PLC hopeful on Livestock and Corn Programs budget increase through PhP66B stimulus package

  The National Banner Program Committee on Poultry, Livestock and Corn (NBPC-PLC) expressed their high hopes for an additional PhP1.75 Billion (B) budget for the Department of Agriculture (DA) National Livestock and Corn Programs (NLP and NCP). This is after the Philippine Council for Agriculture and Fisheries (PCAF) convened for the first time the Committee continue reading…

Agri-fishery can rebound — DA chief (repost)

Author: DA Communications Group | 6 May 2020   The Department of Agriculture (DA) is taking the necessary steps to boost domestic food production and attain higher levels of food sufficiency in the coming months after a slight decline in the first quarter (Q1) of the year. The Philippine Statistics Authority reported today that the continue reading…