AGRICULTURE

COTABATO CITY --The Department of Agriculture and Fisheries (DAF) in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM)has introduced a new application that will help increase the yield of rice farmers in the region.TheRice Crop Manager (RCM) app provides information that helps farmersadminister water management, nutrient, pest and weeds control depending on the seed variety and site specific conditions.The app is accessible through the internetusing a smartphone, computer and other mobile devices.On Wednesday, DAF-ARMM trainedmore than 200 local farm technicians, agri-technologists and exten

KIDAPAWAN CITY - About P7 million worth of agricultural products in Kidapawan Cityhave been damaged beyond recovery due to dry spell, agriculture officials today said.Nesmari Espejo, acting Kidapawan City agriculturist, told the Sangguniang Panglungsod most affected agricultural products are banana plantations. At least 17 hectares of banana plantations have dried up with an estimated cost of more than P6 million, Espejo told city lawmakers in her report.

KIDAPAWAN CITY -At least 800 more local peasants stand to benefit from another agricultural intervention package the provincial government will launch month.North Cotabato’s provincial agriculturist, Eliseo Mangliwan, on Wednesday said they now have organic fertilizers to be distributed to the farmers, besides the technical services they are to extend to them as part of the project.The fertilizer dispersal activity was planned by Gov.

KORONADAL CITY -- The Department of Agriculture in Central Minanao said it is ready for the long dry spell that already hit the region.DA-12 Regional Executive Director Amalia Jayag-Datukan said her office has prepared drought resistant agricultural products as assistance to farmers who will suffer the brunt of extreme heat. Among them are heat resistant rice seedlings, vegetable seedlings and legumes.DA is mulling to conduct cloud seeding operations although agriculture officials are convinced this is expensive.

MANILA -- The Department of Agriculture (DA) on Thursday assured the public that the government is prepared for the effects of the prevailing mild El Niño in the country even as it praised farmers who have meticulously conserved water ahead of the weather phenomenon that is expected to extend the dry season.Agriculture Secretary Proceso Alcala said that although El Niño is here, we are prepared and it will not turn out to be the sum of all our fears.”El Niño, the irregular rise in the temperature of the Pacific Ocean, is accompanied by below average rainfall.Over the past few months, Alcal

KIDAPAWAN
CITY — Farm animals have died and newly planted
rice and corn have been wilted as temperature rises up to 31 degree Celsius
in North Cotabato over the weekend.

Dr. Eugene Gornez, Kidapawan City veterinarian, confirmed the deaths of hogs as well as large cattle in the
remote villages here due to exposure to the scourging heat.

He
said at least seven pigs and a cow have died last week due to heat stroke.

ALEOSAN,
North Cotabato – More than a week after the North Cotabato office
of provincial veterinarian (OPVet) treated more than 740 work animals of
internally displaced persons (IDP), the OPVet dispersed animals to farmer
beneficiaries here remote villages here. In
late February, th OPVet conducted sagip hayop” program in nearby Pikit, also
in North Cotabato, and treated animals of IDPs which Dr. Rufuno Suropia, provincial
veterinarian, said also suffered stressed and trauma.
Over

MANILA (PNA) -- The Department of Agriculture (DA) distributed Tuesday close to one billion pesos worth of agricultural projects - including infrastructures, various farm machinery and equipment - to farmers and fisherfolk of Region XII during the second leg of the Makinaryang Pansakahan, Dagdag Kita at Yaman” held at the Tupi Seed Center, in Bololmala, Tupi, South Cotabato.A total of Phl 995.4 million in postharvest machineries and other farm equipment were awarded to organized farm groups and irrigators’ associations, as well as to local government units (LGUs) as part of the government’

COTABATO CITY–The Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) will introduce to farmers in the region the Green Super Rice (GSR) for commercial production following a successful harvest at a 2-hectare demonstration farm in Maguindanao.ARMM Agriculture Secretary Macmod Mending Jr.

COTABATO CITY-- The province will emerge as top producer of the new high-yield Green Super Rice (GSR) in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao by 2017 if the fragile peace in the area will continue in the coming months, official said Friday.Officials of the ARMM’s Department of Agriculture and Fisheries announced on Friday, during the Regional Farmers Field Day in Sultan Mastura, Maguindanao that Muslim and Christian peasants have reported a two to three-fold increase in their harvests in the past three cropping seasons using GSR seeds.