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The Department of Agriculture has come under fire after a farmers’ group revealed that the biofertilizer being pushed by the DA for distribution is overpriced at P2,000 per bag as the University of Philippines Los Baños offers it at only P500 per bag.

Peasant group Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas is appealing to the government to extend the April 26 deadline of the mandatory SIM registration to prevent the disenfranchisement of millions from using their mobile devices in the coming days.

Petitioners are asking the Supreme Court to issue a temporary restraining order or writ of preliminary injunction to prevent the government from implementing the law

Another farmers’ group yesterday questioned the implementation of the Support to Parcelization of Land for Individual Titling of the Department of Agrarian Reform, saying it encourages farmer beneficiaries of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program to sell their land to developers.

A farmers’ group yesterday urged Congress to investigate the implementation of the Department of Agrarian Reform and World Bank Support to Parcelization of Land for Individual Titling project.

On the 28th anniversary of the signing Republic Act 7942, groups held a protest in front of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources in Quezon City.

MANILA (Philippine Daily Inquirer/Asia News Network): A peasant group is asking President Ferdinand Marcos Jr to raise the issue of rampant smuggling of agricultural products from China during his three-day state visit there this week.

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Discount vouchers are not enough. This was according to peasant group Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP) who said that apart from the government’s fertilizer discount vouchers, a P15,000 production subsidy is also “necessary,” reiterating that farmers also “need cash.” (Manila Bulletin Fi

Peasant group Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP), on Sunday, Oct. 23, urged the administration to appoint a competent agriculture secretary, reiterating the need to strengthen the Philippine agricultural sector. “It is obvious that the President cannot fulfill his task as the agriculture secre