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
DA Western Visayas joins farmers’ day celebration of Tacuyong Norte farmers association Read More »
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
DA-BAI VQS apprehends 240,000 pieces undocumented table eggs Read More »
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)
Ilonggo FCAs to receive P50-M rice combine harvesters Read More »
Aimed at intensifying support to the agriculture sector and as a direct response to the input price inflation, the Department of Agriculture (DA) apportioned P158,205,000.00 worth of Rice Farmers Financial Assistance (RFFA) to smallholder farmers of Aklan this year. Out of the total allocation, over P77.6 million cash were distributed on February 3 at ABL
Aklan rice farmers get P158.2-M cash subsidy under RCEF Read More »
Enabling farmers to increase their yield despite the hike in fertilizer costs, the Department of Agriculture (DA) Western Visayas established a technology demo farm introducing alternative sources of nutrients for inbred rice production to farmers in Tubungan, Iloilo. DA and the Municipal Agriculture Office of Tubungan tapped farmer cooperators in Brgy. Tabat to demonstrate five
Biofertilizer for inbred rice production upscaled in Tubungan, Iloilo Read More »
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
RCEF allots P430k bags certified seeds for W. Visayas in 2023 wet season Read More »
Helping more swine growers to recover from the devastation of African Swine Fever (ASF), the Provincial Government of Iloilo distributed Php 1,448,000.00 cash assistance for 133 hog raisers in Leganes and San Miguel on January 24-25, respectively. “May naga pulaw-bugtaw, wala na sang tulog. Maayo kay we passed that stage. Nagapangayo kami sang pasensya kay
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,
DA WV joins Iloilo Business Expo ’23 Read More »
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
DA-F2C2 Program awards P100-K prize to women’s cooperative in Read More »