Republic of the Philippines

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Ilocos Region

All for One, Always Number One!

As part of DA-RFO 1’s continuing effort to help farmers and aspiring agripreneurs to cope up with the fast-pacing product innovation of mushrooms in the market, a two-day training on mushroom production and processing was held in two batches at PREC, Sta. Barbara, Pangasinan on November 8-9, and 10-11, 2022. Said training was participated by read more…

Imploring the best practices of project monitoring under the DA-Philippine Rural Development Project (DA-PRDP) for DA-awarded projects in Ilocos Region, the Regional Operations & Maintenance Audit Team (ROMAT) of DA-RPCO I and the technical staff of the Planning Monitoring & Evaluation Division (PMED), Regional Agricultural Engineering Division (RAED), and the Field Operations Division (FOD), conducted read more…

“The message that we would want to share through this Wagyu project is in fulfilling interventions for farmers in the whole value chain process. There is a need to harmonize financial and physical resources to achieve a wholistic development.” “Hindi kailangan ang malaking pondo to make a project successful. You only need to strategize. Kung read more…

In preparation for the implementation of the SAAD phase 2 in Ilocos region, Information Officers from DA-RFO 1 joined a five-day workshop on communication for development (C4D) facilitated by the Department of Agriculture – Special Area for Agricultural Development (SAAD) NPMO and the resource speakers from the Faculty of Information and Communication of the UP read more…

Ang iba naman ay ginagawang bagoong. Maliban pa riyan, ipinapakain din nila sa ibang alagang isda ang internal organs at ginagawang fish amino acid upang magsilbi namang pataba sa mga halaman. Ating panoorin si Laura Boado, presidente ng Ubagan Fisherfolk’s Association at ang kanilang kwentong #foodhero. http://ilocos.da.gov.ph/wp-content/uploads/313259343_703755831279074_3428970303942622599_n.mp4

Ayon kay Nita Domingo, kung gaano kasi ka-safe ang kinakain nila ay gayundin ang kanilang ibinebenta sa mga namimili. http://ilocos.da.gov.ph/wp-content/uploads/312804076_529203715209926_3026711714342155371_n.mp4

Strengthening the Agricultural Program Coordinating Officers’ (APCO) function as coordinating body in the implementation of the various programs, projects and activities in the four provinces of the region, the Field Operations Division of the Department of Agriculture in Ilocos region conducted a two-day retooling program for the APCOs of Pangasinan and La Union at DA-Pangasinan read more…

A total of 2, 122 farmer-enrollees received from the Agricultural Training Institute-Regional Training Center (ATI-RTC) their certificate of completion as graduate of the season-long School on-the-Air on Smart Rice Agriculture (SOA-SRA) in a Mass Graduation ceremonies held at the Urdaneta City Cultural and Sports Center on October 25, 2022. An activity started in August, 2022 read more…

Kaya naman naisipan ng Kabulig Farmers Association sa bayan ng Santol, La Union na sa halip na itapon, ay gawin na lang na banana chips ang mga produkto nilang saging. Ang iba ay niluluto rin nilang pagkain ng mga alagang baboy. Narito si Ralyn Zambrona, presidente ng nasabing asosasyon at SABAy-SABAy nating panoorin ang kanilang read more…