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Confed welcomes PBBM plan to explore gov't-to-gov't fertilizer purchase

FROM THE MARGINS Putting agriculture at the forefront of our development agenda is a good move on the part of President Marcos. His assumption of the post of Agriculture Secretary is an affirmation of the promise made during his presidential campaign to lower the price of rice to P20 a kilo. Whil

In his first Cabinet meeting last Tuesday, Ferdinand Marcos Jr. announced that economic recovery takes precedence over all concerns under his administration and that his economic managers would set the “central policy.”

The Philippines is projected to increase its rice imports this year and next year by 100,000 metric tons (MT) to 3.1 million MT on higher demand, according to the United States Department of Agriculture.

BIRD FLU TESTING. Live chickens, including roosters for gaming as shown in this undated photo, require a negative test result for avian influenza before being allowed to travel outside of Negros Oriental. The province so far remains free from bird flu. (PNA file photo by Judy Flores Partlow) DUMAGUETE CITY - Live chickens and other poultry being brought outside of Negros Oriental must be first tested negative for avian influenza prior to travel, the Bureau of Animal Industry (BAI) of the Department of Agriculture here said on Wednesday. Dr. Alfonso Tundag, BAI quarantine officer and provincial...