February 2023

As a government’s move to ensure high yield amid the soaring fertilizer prices, the Department of Agriculture (DA) Western Visayas allocated P635,617,356.00 worth of Fertilizer Discount Vouchers (FDV) to eligible rice farmers who planted palay this 2022-2023 dry cropping season. Inadequate nitrogen fertilizer application limits the attainment of the potential of the region to increase […]

Aiming to identify potential Local Government Units (LGUs) who can initially implement the program on swine sentinelling, the Department of Agriculture (DA) Western Visayas Livestock Program mounted a consultative meeting with 45 municipal/city agriculturists and LGU representatives from 23 African Swine Fever (ASF) affected areas on February 15, 2023, at WESVIARC Compound, Iloilo City. The

The Department of Agriculture-Western Visayas’ (DA-WV) Agribusiness and Marketing Assistance Division (AMAD) holds a two-day complementation activity with the Provincial Local Government Units (PLGU) in Kalibo, Aklan, February 16 to 17. To maintain a strong collaboration between AMAD and provincial LGUs, a complementation activity is conducted to discuss the regular programs of the agribusiness and

“Our public markets should be filled with farmer’s produce coming from Tacuyong Norte Farmers Association. To produce more vegetables and crops is a way to uplift our economy and address the price increasing of vegetables in the market. TNFA should have a competitive advantage in bench marking, wherein cluster barangays must focus on a particular

Acting promptly to reports on undocumented livestock products, personnel from the Bureau of Animal Industry Veterinary Quarantine Service 6 (BAI VQS 6), Department of Agriculture (DA) Western Visayas, and Provincial Veterinary Offices of Negros Occidental and Bacolod City prevented the entry of a shipment carrying 8,000 trays of table eggs to BREDCO Port, Bacolod City

Thirty units of rice combine harvesters were turned over by the Philippine Center for Postharvest Development and Mechanization (PhilMech) to qualified farmers associations and cooperatives (FCAs) of Iloilo during the Provincial Turnover and Agricultural Machinery Distribution on February 7 at Banate, Iloilo. The agricultural machines turned over were under the Rice Competitiveness Enhancement Fund (RCEF)