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SunStar + April 19, 2021 THE Central Luzon Department of Agriculture (DA) monitored a maize selected to be the Corn Model Farm in Mabalacat recently. The inspection was led by Corn Banner Program Coordinator Adela Peñalba and Office of the Provincial Agriculturist District I Corn and Cassava Coordinator Reynaldo Sarmiento. The said program was started in October 2019 and aims to increase and obtain good quality yellow corn harvest, reduce production cost using farm mechanization and other interventions. Part of the program is the distribution of free seeds, fertilizers and techn...

By TED CORDERO, GMA News Published April 9, 2021 3:39pm The recently approved reduction on the tariff rates of imported pork is a move that will benefit all Filipinos as this will eventually lower the retail price of pork in the market, Agriculture Secretary William Dar said Friday. “With these lowering of tariff and the ongoing repopulation program, we believe every stakeholder, including the citizenry, in terms of affordable prices ay win-win lahat ito" (this is a win-win deal for all),” Dar said during state-run PTV’s Laging Handa briefing. On Wednesday, President Rodrigo Dute...

April 08, 2021 THE Department of Agriculture (DA) has urged hog raisers to report African swine fever (ASF)-infected hogs to prevent the further spread of the disease that is affecting the country’s hog industry. In a press release, Agriculture Secretary William Dar said the DA through the Philippine Crop Insurance Corp. (DA-PCIC) is increasing its indemnity for hogs culled due to ASF. “Through the PCIC insurance program, we are doubling the indemnification payout for every pig that contracts ASF from P5,000 to P10,000. With the increased indemnity, hog raisers are encouraged...

State-owned Philippine Crop Insurance Corporation (PCIC) managed to insure in 2020 some 3.09 million farmers and fishermen amid natural calamities and plants and animal infections that caused widespread risk to the agriculture industry.

Photo by MA Albert Estoya. This, after the PCIC Board of Directors approved the proposal of its parent agency, the Department of Agriculture (DA), to relax its conditions on the payment for hog raisers’ losses as well as cover future hog raising activities. The DA has proposed that PCIC pay the losses resulting from government-ordered culling or slaughter of insured hogs and raise the payable amount up to 100 percent of the insurance cover or the total sum insured.   Agriculture Secretary William Dar described this as part of the agency’s “bold policy actions” amid the persistence of...