WHO backs farmers to grow food instead of tobacco
The World Health Organization said Friday it was helping a growing number of farmers turn away from tobacco to help ...
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They work hard so the people can eat
Farmers apply fertilizer to their corn field in Barangay Talogtog, Laoac, Pangasinan, unmindful of the sweat in the backs and ...
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LandBank denies failure to serve farm sector
State-run Land Bank of the Philippines on Thursday denied claims from some quarters that it had “failed in its mandate,” ...
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PBBM clears farmers’ land debts, says Recto
President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s first social legislation will free 610,000 farmers from debts in acquiring agrarian reform lands whose combined ...
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PSA: Fishers, farmers, rural folk still poorest
Fisherfolk, farmers, children, and persons living in rural areas remained the poorest sectors in terms of poverty incidence in 2021, ...
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Support for farmers
The Philippine Council for Agriculture, Aquatic and Natural Resources Research and Development, a multi-sectoral research and development body under the ...
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Win urges gov’t to go after agri smugglers
Senator Sherwin Gatchalian on Friday called on all concerned agencies to go after smugglers of agricultural commodities and protect local ...
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PhilMech official denies favoritism
The Philippine Center for Postharvest Development and Mechanization (PhilMech) Director IV Dr. Dionisio G. Alvindia has defended the designation of ...
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Kenny Rogers’ ‘farmvocacy’
Support for farmers. Farmers from Mapalad Ka in Mindoro represented by (from left) Yano Wahig, Sena Calinog, community organizer Joseph ...
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Food group seeks to protect rice farmers’ farm gate prices
Farmers cannot be on the losing end if the national government decides to lower the price of rice, the Philippine ...
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