In a bid to enhance farmers’ profitability and income generation, 18 rice farmer clusters from the six provinces of Western Visayas have been equipped with the necessary skills to develop viable business plans, utilizing the Agro-Enterprise Clustering Approach (AECA) Phase 2. The training held on August 9 to 11 in Iloilo City intends to ensure […]
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The Department of Agriculture (DA) Western Visayas honored the standout achievers of the region’s agribusiness sector by announcing the 2023 Young Farmers Challenge (YFC) provincial winners on August 9, 2023, in Iloilo City. In 2021, the Agribusiness and Marketing Assistance Division (DA-AMAD) of the Department of Agriculture, in partnership with Senator Imee Marcos, launched the
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The province of Guimaras, now known for “Mangoes and More,” is firmly establishing itself as a dragon fruit hub in Western Visayas. Presently, Guimaras devotes 28 hectares to the cultivation of dragon fruit. The Department of Agriculture’s (DA) Western Visayas Regional High Value Crops Development Program (HVCDP) Focal Person, Jonifer Frades, revealed that the DA
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Ten local government units (LGUs) in Negros Occidental continue to maintain their ASF-free status, and the province has achieved a significant milestone as the daily pig deaths have plummeted to single digits. The province has successfully curbed the spread of various hog diseases through rigorous disinfection protocols, robust biosecurity measures, and an intensive Information Education
The Department of Agriculture (DA) Western Visayas Farm and Fisheries Cluster and Consolidation (F2C2) Program’s Agro Enterprise Clustering Approach (AECA) has achieved a significant milestone as it enters Phase 2. The program conducted a 3-day workshop in Iloilo City on August 2-4, 2023, training 45 Farmer Cooperatives and Association representatives. These representatives hailed from various
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Armed as one of the pioneer farmers cooperative and association (FCA) accredited by the Bureau of Agriculture Product Standards (BAFS) as a Participatory Guarantee System-Organic Certifying Body (PGS-OCB) in the province of Iloilo, the Cabatuan Organic Farmers and Practitioners Association (COFPA) is optimistic that soon they can saturate the market potential with their products. Brigida
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For Filipino farmers to obtain higher crop yields and remain competitive in the global rice trade liberalization, the Department of Agriculture (DA) in partnership with the International Research Institute (IRRI) are innovating new climate-smart pest management systems with replicable practices to address the emerging and future pest problems. To address the serious threat of crop
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Thirty-four farmer exhibitors showcase their respective agricultural products during the simultaneous launching of the KADIWA ng Pangulo Program’s market linkage at Iloilo Capitol, on July 17, 2023. This initiative aims to make agri-fishery products accessible at a reasonable price and to generate extra markets for smallholder farmers and farmer cooperatives. It is a market linkage
The Department of Agriculture (DA) Western Visayas, in collaboration with the Japan International Cooperation Agency-Japan and Philippines One Health Rabies Project (JICA-JAPOHR), has strengthened the rabies surveillance and rapid response by capacitating the 55 participants in the region with latest breakthroughs on rabies management. Masanari Yanagiuichi, Senior Representative of JICA, emphasized their approach to rabies
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To address the input price inflation affecting their production output and yield, members of the nine clustered farmers’ cooperatives and associations, who focused on rice and organic agriculture, participated in the training on Agro-Enterprise Clustering Approach (AECA) of the Department of Agriculture (DA) Western Visayas’ Farm and Fisheries Clustering and Consolidation (F2C2) from July 12