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GARDEN-TO-TABLE FOOD. Jeddalyn Gaces, a public school teacher and a mom, smiles as she takes a picture of the bittermelon harvested from their 15-square-meter backyard garden, in this undated photo in Cavite. She encouraged other families to try urban farming, supporting the call of the Agriculture Department, considering the increasing market prices of food. (Photo courtesy: Jeddalyn Gaces) MANILA - Sustaining daily meals might have just gone costlier for some families with crude price hikes consequently affecting the prices of goods in the market and warnings of a global food crisis rife. Bu...

BY GILBERT P. BAYORAN Negros Occidental is bracing for a world food crisis that is warned by experts to take place before the end of 2022. Governor

With agricultural smuggling and extortion controversies surrounding Philippine agriculture, Agriculture Secretary William Dar reiterated his call against corruption during the 44th founding anniversary of the Bureau of Plant Industry – National Plant Quarantine Services Division (BPI-NPQSD) on June 10, 2022.

(File photo) MANILA - Composting and the use of organic fertilizers are better agriculture practices for the protection of the soil, Senator Cynthia Villar said on Monday. Villar pointed out that bad practices reduce nutrients in the soil, resulting in at least 38-percent degradation. In a video message during the 71st anniversary of the Bureau of Soils and Waste Management (BSWM), Villar underscored the need to produce organic fertilizer from agricultural residues like rice straw, corn stover, animal manure, among others, to replace inorganic, synthetic or chemical fertilizers. It is importan...

African Swine Fever continues to spread across the Philippines, with 250 new cases reported nationwide.