AGRICULTURE

KABACAN, North Cotabato -- Quick response.

MAGUINDANAO --- A mayor is prosecuting four Iranun fishermen caught using dynamites in a protected fishing site at the Moro Gulf.Mayor Ibrahim Ibay said Monday the four men, relatives Rashid, Milham, Mohajier and Totok, all surnamed Kusain, also yielded components for dynamites when they were arrested last week while setting off an explosive to kill fishes in coral reefs in territorial waters of the municipality of Parang.Ibay, citing police reports, said all four men are residents of Kalanganan area in nearby Cotabato City.Ibay said the protected marine sites in Parang are open to all, but

Datu Piang, Maguindanao – The Humanitarian and Development Assistance Program of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (HDAP-ARMM) turned over two units of multi-purpose solar drying pavements, worth P400,000 each, to cooperatives in barangays Poblacion and Dado in Datu Piang on Wednesday, January 10.Sonora Dagadas, municipal agriculture officer of Datu Piang, said the new drying facilities will directly benefit as many as 3,000 farmers not only from this town but from other areas in the province as well. Ang mga drying pavements na ito ay bukas para sa lahat ng farmers.

COTABATO CITY – For the seventh consecutive year, the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BFAR-ARMM) is imposing a three-month closed season for fishing ‘tamban’, or Indian sardine, in the Sulu Sea and Basilan Strait.Jerusalem Abdulahim, chief of the Fisheries Regulatory and Law Enforcement Division of BFAR-ARMM, said the annual fishing ban is implemented to give time for tamban to reproduce.

COTABATO CITY --- Maranaos lost P152.4 million worth of crops when tropical storm Vinta pummeled the province last month.Reports reaching the executive department here of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao stated that the typhoon destroyed P88.9 million worth of harvestable rice crops in farms along Lake Lanao that were hit by flashfloods.More than a dozen rice and corn-producing towns in Lanao del Sur, a component-province of ARMM, were ravaged by flash floods due to heavy downpours spawned by storm Vinta.In a report Friday to the office of ARMM Gov.

DAVAO CITY - Strong winds gusting ahead of the landfall of Typhoon Vinta nearly spoiled yesterday the staging of two historic events - the commissioning of two Philippine-made multi-mission offshore vessels (MMOV) and the launching of the Bigas-Mais Blend which would make the country sufficient in staple grains supply.As the crowd waited for the arrival of President Rody Duterte at about 3 p.m., easterly gusts of wind topped off the canvas roof of the steel truss-structure serving as the venue for the activity which was set up beside the Sasa Wharf where BRP Lapulapu and BRP Francisco Dago

OROQUIETA CITY -Farmers and fisher folks of this province, which for so long carried the stigma of being labeled as the heartland of the notorious criminal gang Kuratong Baleleng, yesterday received some P120-Million worth of agriculture and fisheries projects and machineries from government.The delivery of the projects and machineries, including 152 fiberglass fishing boats under the FB Pagbabago program of the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) came five months after I visited Tangub City in June for the first Biyaheng Bukid sortie.Misamis Occidental Governor Hermie Ramiro a

President Donald Trump has expressed support for the Philippine Dairy Goat Development Program which will be launched in 2019 using the remaining P1.5-B of the Washington PL 480 loan granted by the U.S.Government.I had the rare opportunity during the reception last night for world leaders attending the Gala Dinner tendered by President Rody Duterte to briefly inform Pres. Trump of the program. Mr. President, we are implementing a Dairy Goat Development using P1.5-B from your government, I told Pres. Trump.

KABACAN, North
Cotabato - The Department of Agriculture (DA) is now bridging its advocacies and
programs to the youth.

In his
Biyaheng Bukid here, specifically at the University of Southern Mindanao (USM),
Agriculture Secretary Emmanuel Piñol announced a new program that will
stimulate the interest of the Filipino youth to agriculture.

COTABATO CITY – Dayang Carlsum Sangkula Jumaide has been sworn in as the new secretary of the Department of Agrarian Reform of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (DAR-ARMM). Secretary Jumaide formally took her oath of office on Monday, October 2, before ARMM Executive Secretary Atty. Laisa Alamia. We are confident that Secretary Jumaide will serve the agrarian reform partners’ interest in our region, Atty. Alamia said.Sec. Jumaide replaces Amihilda Sangcopan who filed her resignation in August.