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Think of the sugar farmers too

By Boo Chanco | February 10, 2010 - 12:00am

Apparently pressured by TV Patrol’s constant hammering on rising sugar prices, Agriculture Secretary Art Yap called me one evening shortly after the newscast went on air, to sound me out on some options they...

Business

Government scams victimize motorists

By Boo Chanco | January 15, 2010 - 12:00am

It really is too much. It is just as well that the Supreme Court stopped the implementation of that overpriced radio tagging device on motor vehicles.

Business

Keeping the dairy industry afloat

December 28, 2009 - 12:00am

We would like to thank Mr. Ray Butch Gamboa for citing what he described in his Dec. 5 column (“Dairy cattle business — a milking cow”) as the “tireless efforts” by Agriculture Secretary...

Letters to the Editor

PSE, DA seal pact to explore commodities mart

By Marianne V. Go | November 1, 2009 - 12:00am

The Philippine Stock Exchange (PSE) and the Department of Agriculture (DA) sealed Friday a partnership that will lay the foundation for a commodities trading platform in the country.

Business

DA advocacy

October 21, 2009 - 12:00am

One of the highlights of this writer’s journalism career was the opportunity to cover the agriculture beat.

Business

What do we get from land deal?

By Boo Chanco | July 20, 2009 - 12:00am

A foreign news dispatch datelined Seoul reports that a South Korean provincial government has leased a major plot of farmland in Mindoro to grow corn.

Business

DA extends more support to farmers

March 14, 2009 - 12:00am

This is in connection with the paid advertisement published in the March 9, 2009 issue of the Philippine STAR about the complaints of some farmers in Central Luzon on their SL-8H hybrid rice plants.

Letters to the Editor

Impressions and facts

By CTALK | By Cito Beltran | January 12, 2009 - 12:00am

During the long Christmas holidays, I had several opportunities to talk with friends as well as new acquaintances from the Filipino Chinese community.

Opinion

Hog farmers hail lower pork prices

By Rhia de Pablo | October 27, 2008 - 12:00am

The National Federation of Hog Farmers, Inc. (NFHFI), the nationwide association of hog raisers in the country, hailed ...

Freeman Cebu Business

House to hike DA budget

By Jess Diaz | October 9, 2008 - 12:00am

The Department of Agriculture (DA) may actually get a budget augmentation instead of a reduction despite the Commission ...

Business