January 2023

To sustain the increase in palay production and yield, the Department of Agriculture (DA) Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice) positioned 430,196 bags of certified inbred seeds under the Rice Competitiveness Enhancement Fund (RCEF) Program for distribution to rice farmers in Western Visayas this wet planting season. The seed allocation, which targets to benefit 223,156 master-listed […]

The Department of Agriculture Western Visayas together with the Department of Tourism, Department of Trade and Industry , Iloilo Festival Foundation Inc. and the city and province of Iloilo joined the Iloilo Business Expo(ILOBEX) organized by the Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PCCI)in participation to the Dinagyang festival at Robinsons Mall , January 16-22,

The Department of Agriculture Western Visayas (DA-WV) F2C2 Program recently turned over the PhP100,000 business capital grant to Progressive Women Agrarian Reform Cooperative (PWARC) as the beneficiary of the fund bagged by the DA-F2C2 delegate as the best business plan during the business plan training organized by the Agricultural Training Institute Regional Training Center VI

Aiming to regain the hog industry in Oton, Iloilo after being affected by African Swine Fever (ASF), the Iloilo Provincial Government turned over a financial assistance amounting to P1,646,000.00 for 189 hog raisers on January 19, 2023. This is the first batch of distribution after the rigid validation of the Provincial Veterinary Office (ProVet) for