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In support of one of the key messages of this year’s National Rice Awareness Month (NRAM), which encourages the public to consume rice mixed with other staples such as adlay, corn, banana, taro, sweet potato, and cassava, the Department of Agriculture (DA) Western Visayas held the Pinasarap na Kanin Cooking Challenge on November 5 at […]

Agricultural information officers from the Department of Agriculture (DA) Western Visayas, along with its attached bureaus, agencies, and provincial agricultural offices, learned new strategies to effectively communicate programs and advocacies from the workshop on Enhancing Social Media Presence of Government Agencies: Creating, Packaging, and Boosting Content for Facebook, YouTube, and Instagram, conducted on October 29 […]

Understanding the farmers’ plight prompted a prominent group in Dingle, Iloilo, to form a farmers’ cooperative in February 1956. Initially called the Dingle FACOMA or the Farmers Marketing Cooperative, the Dingle Multi-Purpose Cooperative (MPC) was established to assist local rice farmers in overcoming several constraints in the agriculture sector, including farmers’ difficulty marketing their produce […]

The Department of Agriculture (DA) Western Visayas recognized women who have made significant contributions to agriculture and fisheries during the 2024 Gawad Parangal sa Katangi-tanging Kababaihan sa Pagsasaka at Pangisda sa Kanayunan on October 17, 2024, in Iloilo City. The search for outstanding rural women was spearheaded by DA-RFO6 Regional Executive Director Dennis Arpia, represented […]

  Rice farmers of Brgy. Ongol Ilaya Farmers Association in Dumarao, Capiz, gear for higher production this wet season harvest with the interventions from the Department of Agriculture (DA) Western Visayas’ MASAGANA Program. Farmer members gathered on October 16 for a field day celebrating the increased harvest for cultivating hybrid seeds for the first time […]

  The five-month-long School On Air on Smart Rice Agriculture (SOA-SRA) radio program of the Department of Agriculture (DA) Western Visayas capped on October 11 with around 400 farmer-graduates from the Municipalities of Dingle, Passi City, Pototan, and Sta. Barbara, Iloilo. DA Western Visayas conducted the SOA-SRA over DYRI RMN Iloilo 774kHz from June to […]