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Published May 25, 2021, 10:00 AM Living in a foreign country is a different experience for everyone. For Christian Facun, 41, and his wife Marilou Santos-Facun, 37, living in Rome, Italy have made them experience celebrating special occasions alone due to clashing work schedules.  Sometimes, they would accidentally meet in the streets when one of them is off to work while the other is just about to go home. The couple also faced discrimination several times in those 13 years of working overseas.  Deciding to go back to the Philippines for good was a turning point in their life. “We want t...

The reality of venturing into agriculture as an alternative avenue to drive any economy and reduce poverty, in relation to Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), by any administration cannot be over-emphasised, given its significant contribution to food security, job creation, and to a large extent, in generating revenue into the coffers of the government. This was the maiden approach the current administration in Ogun State adopted at inception. Vision drives mission. There is no gain saying the fact that the Prince Dapo Abiodun-led administration has demonstrated its commitment and resolve t...

ADVERTISEMENT The Ogun State government has been nominated to benefit from three federal government’s agricultural pilot programmes amid efforts to further position the state as one of the major food producers in the country, an official has said. This development was disclosed by the executive secretary, National Agricultural Land Development Authority (NALDA), Paul Ikonne, when he led the management of the Authority to the office of the state governor in Abeokuta on Wednesday. Mr Ikonne said that Ogun will benefit from the Integrated Farm Estate, Garri Packaging Plant, a training program...

April 13, 2021 THE top official of the Department of Agriculture (DA)-Western Visayas has encouraged the public to consume indigenous food resources and locally-grown products to help farmers cope with the adverse economic effects of the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. DA-Western Visayas Director Remelyn Recoter, on the sidelines of the kick-off celebration of Filipino Food Month (FFM) in Western Visayas in Iloilo City on Monday, April 12, said they aim to create awareness among Filipinos of the indigenous food. “Also, the activity will be an avenue for our farmers to sell their pro...

Published December 19, 2020, 10:00 AM Johnny Sniper, 39, a radio and TV personality in Cebu City, has been farming since college. Farming for Sniper is a passion that he learned through experience, consolidated ideas, and research.  The 39-year-old farmer established his own farm in Antequera, Bohol in 2017. Coquilla Integrated Farm (CIF) is a 7,000sqm land equipped with crops, fishes, livestock, ornamental plants, product processing, and other elements. After his media production business temporarily closed because of the pandemic, Sniper decided to retire from his media career and to be a ...