When the “perfect storm” hit the country in 2020, Agriculture Secretary William Dar emphasized the significant contributions of the agri-fishery private sector-partners in achieving a modest growth of one percent in the sector. During the 6th National Agriculture and Fisheries Volunteers’ Day Celebration on January 7, 2021, the Agriculture Chief once again appealed to the continue reading…
Poultry (Broiler) and Feed Crops industry stakeholders conducted a video conference on April 14 to discuss the confronting issues amidst the COVID-19. The stakeholders will discuss about the: 1. Adequacy of supply 2. Movement from farm to market 3. Checkpoint blockage vs DA food pass 4. Market price vs price act 5. Adequacy of continue reading…
Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, PCAF gathered on April 6, 2020 its private stakeholders and concerned DA officials in a video conference to discuss confronting issues in the swine industry and provide possible solutions. Here are the following agenda: 1. Adequacy of supply of pork (decreasing sow level) 2. Movement from farm to market (issuance continue reading…
Farm-to-market roads (FMR) comprised more than 30% of 149 programs and projects evaluated by the members of participatory monitoring and tracking (PMT) team from September 17 to 24, 2018 in five provinces and one city of Davao Region. Six monitoring groups from the Philippine Council for Agriculture and Fisheries (PCAF) and private-sector stakeholders of the continue reading…
More than a hundred local coffee growers from different regions gathered in a summit on July 3 to 5, 2018 in General Santos City to understand the current state of the industry and come up with appropriate policy recommendations that would improve the industry across the value chain. Funded by the Philippine Council for Agriculture continue reading…
A study commissioned by the Philippine Council for Agriculture and Fisheries (PCAF) to the Development Academy of the Philippines (DAP) recently revealed that the unnecessary regulatory burden affects the ease of doing business in the agriculture and fishery sector. According to the study, businesses have to bear unnecessary regulatory burdens like duplication of requirements in continue reading…
In pursuit to harmonize and have a shared understanding in preparing Strategic Performance Management System (SPMS) forms, the Philippine Council for Agriculture and Fisheries (PCAF) conducted its SPMS workshop on March 19 to 21, 2018 in San Mateo, Rizal. SPMS is a mechanism that links employee’s performance with the organizational performance to ensure that goals continue reading…
The University of the Philippines- Center for Leadership, Citizenship and Democracy’s (UP-CLCD) program for Policy-making and Engagement for Agricultural and Fishery Council (AFC-CAPE) was tested by 27 selected employees of the Philippine Council for Agriculture and Fisheries (PCAF) on February 13 to 15, 2018. Since 2015, PCAF has been partnering with the University of the continue reading…
