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Sustainability against all odds: Meet our grassroots farmers

By POINT OF VIEW | By Daniel Maches | 4 days ago

Sustainability remains a national buzzword. All over social media, we hear of leaders and experts talking about how to push for sustainability in the Philippines.

Opinion

Magtanim hindi biro

By SINGKIT | By Doreen G. Yu | 8 days ago

Rice, to Filipinos, is as basic and essential as air and water. It is thus a high crime that we cannot feed our own people, and it is a national shame that we rely on farmers in Vietnam and Thailand and India to...

Opinion

Farmers get subsidized access to drone services

January 5, 2025 - 12:00am

The government is pushing drone technology as a solution that can be adopted by rice farmers to increase their yields and...

Business

Agriculture moves forward post-El Niño, La Niña

By Jasper Emmanuel Arcalas | December 31, 2024 - 12:00am

Farmers and fishermen are used to storms. But not to a “perfect storm.”

Business

From sayote to coffee

By FOOD FOR THOUGHT | By Chit U. Juan | December 7, 2024 - 12:00am

How do we transform or change the mindset of sayote (chayote) farmers to convert to crops that are safer for the environment and will give sustainable incomes?

Opinion

Farmers want 25,000 agricultural extension workers returned to DA

By Bella Cariaso | November 26, 2024 - 12:00am

Farmers’ groups on Monday pushed for the return of at least 25,000 agricultural extension workers to the Department...

Headlines

‘Rice farm mechanization level to hit 3 hp/ha by 2031’

By Jasper Emmanuel Arcalas | November 18, 2024 - 12:00am

The average mechanization level of the country’s rice farms could hit three horsepower per hectare by 2031, improving...

Business

6,400 farmers, fisherfolk to get United Nations typhoon aid

By Ghio Ong | November 16, 2024 - 12:00am

The United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) will provide over 6,400 farmers and fishermen in Catanduanes...

Headlines

Tuburan to focus on agriculture-tourism

By Jonnavie Villa | November 10, 2024 - 12:00am

Over 350 local farmers from Tuburan Town, Cebu, benefited from services and learned from the vision offered by the Post-State...

Cebu News

Farmers dump onions amid glut of imported bulbs

By Bella Cariaso | November 9, 2024 - 12:00am

During the holiday season in 2022, the country saw an unprecedented onion crisis, with retail prices of the bulbs hitting...

Headlines