AGRICULTURE

KORONADAL CITY -The Department of Agriculture 12 hopes to bring home more accolades at the annual DA-led Gawad Saka Awards this year.Engr. Milagros Casis, regional executive director of DA 12, disclosed today that the regional office had endorsed ten entries from Soccsksargen in this year’s edition of the prestigious national tilt.

The national inland fisheries program called Balik Sigla sa Ilog at Lawa or Project BASIL had a virtual soft-launching in the interior town of Banisilan in North Cotabato yesterday when 25,000 Tilapia fingerlings were seeded in the creeks and rivers of the municipality.The 25,000 fingerlings, provided by Director Usop Pendaliday of the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) hatchery in the University of Southern Mindanao (USM) in Kabacan, will be part of 100,000 fingerlings which will be seeded in the rivers and creeks of Banisilan.Banisilan, the venue of a Biyaheng Bukid Farmers

President Rody Duterte has directed the Department of Agriculture and Fisheries (DAF) to hasten the farm mechanisation in the country and promised sufficient funds to support the program.During the Rice Harvest Festival in Tabacao, Talavera, Nueva Ecija, the President was shown the efficiency of the Combined Rice Harvester/Thresher which could harvest three hectares of paddy rice in one day.Seeing the impressive performance of the Harvester/Thresher, President Duterte asked me how many units of the harvesters have been distributed to farmers' groups by the department.When I told him that t

TUPI, South Cotabato- The Department of Agriculture-Philippine Rural Development Project
(DA-PRDP) expects for a stronger partnership with local government units (LGUs)
in Region 12 after a complementation forum with local chief executives (LCEs)
was conducted on March 28, 2017.

ALEOSAN, North Cotabato ---With
the joint venture of Department of Agriculture – AgriBusiness and Marketing
Assistance Service (DA- AMAS), Bureau of Animal Industry (BAI), its counterpart
in the Department of Agriculture XII and the local government of Aleosan in
North Cotabato, the first ever operational Livestock Oksyon Market (LOM) in
SOCCSKSARGEN was successfully launched Barangay New Panay.The LOM was in operation after the designated staff was identified and all the needed

COTABATO CITY– The Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM), through its Department of Agriculture and Fisheries (DAF) and partner agencies, are taking steps to help achieve a rabies-free Philippines by 2020.Rabies is a fatal but preventable disease of dogs and other domesticated animals, which is transmissible to humans through the pets' saliva.The achievement of rabies-free Philippines by 2020 is the country’s goal to support the government’s drive of eliminating rabies-caused human deaths by 2030.The DAF-ARMM has conducted a rabies awareness program on Wednesday, March 8, to students

KORONADAL CITY - The Polo
Samahang Nayon Multi-Purpose Cooperative (Polo SN MPC) and the
member-cooperatives of the cassava cluster of South Cotabato finally received
the last tranche of the P39-M Production and Marketing of Cassava Granules
Project of the Philippine Rural Development Project (PRDP).

The checks worth
P2.2-Million were the last tranche of the fund transfer from World Bank,
Philippine Government and the Provincial Local Government Unit of South
Cotabato as part of the cassava enterprise subproject.

M’LANG, North
Cotabato – A provincial lawmaker in North Cotabato has invaded the
social media to help his farmer-constituents find market of their agricultural
products.

On Friday,
Board Member Socrates Pinol of North Cotabato’ 3rd District, has soft-launched
a virtual wet market in the worldwide web he dubbed as Mlang Farmers
Market.

A native of
this town and son of a farmer, Pinol designed the page on Facebook as an easy
access for farmers to look for buyers of their agricultural products.

KIDAPAWAN CITY -- A local legislator in North Cotabato is urging the Department of Agriculture and the Department of National Defense to collaborate for the establishment of Mechanized Agriculture Battalion (MAB) as the two agencies’ front liners in support to President Duterte’s war on insurgency and separatism.North Cotabato 3rd District Board Member Socrates Pinol said under his proposed MAB, ground forces of the military will be deployed to rebel infested areas to help farmers harvest their crops using rice harvesters, corn sheller, mobile grain harvesters and other state of the art agr

MARAWI CITY – Residents and officials of Lanao del Sur and this city are all praises for the start of unprecedented government focal attention to harness and develop the vast agriculture and aquatic resources in the province and reduce the Maranao region’s high poverty incidence currently recorded at 74.3 percent. This is remarkable, something that we’ve yearned since time immemorial, Lanao del Sur Gov. Bai Soraya Alonto-Adiong told reporters yesterday.Gov.