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PITC cancels G2G rice importation

Philippine International Trading Corp. cancelled the planned government-to-government importation of 300,000 metric tons of rice which are supposed to arrive in the lean months...

Makabayan bloc seeks probe of fertilizer ‘scam’

Legislators belonging to the Makabayan Bloc on Thursday pushed for a congressional investigation of the alleged irregularities in the Department of Agriculture’s grant of...

Dar says fertilizer bidding ‘aboveboard’

Agriculture Secretary William Dar said the centralized bidding of fertilizers by the department is aboveboard and transparent and favorably influenced the retail prices of...

‘DA chief hoodwinked on overpriced fertilizer’

A national alliance of rural-based organizations has warned Agriculture Secretary William Dar that some of his underlings may have been deliberately feeding him wrong...

DA accused of ‘centralized corruption’

An umbrella organization of agriculture stakeholders has accused the Department of Agriculture of centralizing corruption when it took control of the negotiated bidding for...

Local poultry raisers hit import of ‘deboned’ meat

The United Broiler Raisers Association,  a national umbrella of poultry raisers headquartered in Quezon City, denounced anew government claims that “deboned meat is not...

Probe of overpriced fertilizer sought

An umbrella group of agricultural stakeholders on Monday urged the Senate to investigate the allegedly overpriced P1.8 billion fertilizer supply contracts funded under an...

BAI draws flak over import bias

AKO Bicol party-list representative Elizaldy Co urged on Thursday Agriculture Secretary William Dar to fire officials of the Bureau of Animal Industry for alleged...

Send off

Senator Christopher Lawrence Go (front row, with vest), Executive Secretary Salvador Medialdea (front row, 2nd from right), Quezon City Mayor Joy Belmonte (right), Social...

Shut down live animal markets, gov’t urged

As the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) continues to spread, the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) sent an urgent e-mail on Wednesday...

Duterte warns public execs: Behave or you go to prison

President Rodrigo Duterte threatened to detain politicians who will engage in corruption amid the 2019 coronavirus disease (COVID-19) health crisis, stressing that the public...

Make way for pet doctors, checkpoint personnel urged

The Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases should order personnel manning checkpoints, including those in the barangays, to allow the...

A time to reap

p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 11.0px; font: 9.0px 'Myriad Pro'} span.s1 {font: 11.0px 'Myriad Pro'} Agriculture Secretary William Dar (in white shirt) leads the...

Farmers get P100-B fund

A total of P100 billion worth of assistance, aside from the  P10-billion Rice Competitiveness Enhancement Fund, was released to Filipino farmers during the transition to rice...
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