The government has alloted P354.6 million to help the Philippine coffee industry increase its production to 214,626 metric tons (MT) by 2022. According to Agriculture Secretary Emmanuel Piñol, the industry is expected to grow further after the Philippine Coffee Industry Roadmap 2017-2022 was signed last March. “The resources to achieve the growth targets are in
Washington called on President Duterte to liberalize agricultural trade between the Philippines and the United States by reducing the barriers to imported farm products. In the 2018 National Trade Estimate Report on Foreign Trade Barriers of the US Trade Representative (USTR), Washington pressed Manila to make the concessionary rates under Executive Order 23 permanent. The
It was in May 2014 when former President Benigno S. Aquino III decided to transfer the supervision of four agencies attached to the Department of Agriculture (DA) to the Office of the President (OP). Removed from the supervision of the DA were the National Food Authority (NFA), the National Irrigation Administration, Philippine Coconut Authority
THE Department of Agriculture (DA) has announced that the country has achieved a 103-percent self-sufficiency in yellow corn production last year, the first in more than two decades. Quoting a report from the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA), Agriculture Secretary Emmanuel F. Piñol said gross yellow corn output in 2017 reached 5.811 million metric tons
Indonesia has won an appeal against the EU in a dispute over the bloc’s anti-dumping duty on biodiesel, the Ministry of Trade said in a statement on Wednesday (21/03). The European Court of Justice, the EU’s highest court, ruled that the bloc must do away with anti-dumping duties of between 8.8 percent to 23.3 percent
The Agri-Food and Veterinary Authority (AVA) extends substantial support in boosting farm productivity. Technology-sourcing trips and technology-matching sessions abroad are organized by AVA to enable local farmers to learn from other countries’ best practices, and partner with solution providers and technology developers. For instance, a recent technology-sourcing trip in Norway exposed Singaporean farmers to the
Illicit trade hurts economies and undermines democracies, leading to unemployment, price distortions, bankruptcy of local industries, and reduced government tax collection. You can check the whole article here.
A new type of banana, coined as Mongee, has been developed by a Japanese farmer named Setsuzo Tanaka, a technical development manager of D&T Farm in Okayama, Japan. Mongee banana has an edible peel and was invented by using an innovative deep freezing technique. It is made using “freeze thaw awakening,” a new pesticide-free cultivation
Agriculture is facing the same challenges in worldwide. These include water scarcity, limited farmland, shrinking labor, chemical use, increasing demand for protein, and food loss. Technology, particularly information technology, has encouraged the youth to engage in the farm sector to address the problem of aging population in the sector. Companies are also starting to engage