The Integrated National Swine Production Initiatives for Recovery and Expansion or INSPIRE focuses on the recovery, rehabilitation and repopulation program of DA to revive and recover the swine industry as a response to the declining swine production due to ASF virus. Said intervention will be utilized for the implementation of the project “Community-based Swine Production read more…

Giving updates while assessing their counterparts’ performances in the implementation of the programs and projects under the High Value Crops Development Program (HVCDP), the Department of Agriculture in Ilocos Region convened the municipal and provincial HVCDP coordinators and its report officers for a two-day assessment and planning workshop held in Baguio City on January 19-20, read more…

A Pampanga-based institutional buyer procured a total of P1.072 million worth of onions from a farmer in Pangasinan in order to help the latter market their produce amid the controversial supply and price of the said commodity in the country. On Sunday, the DA’s KADIWA truck assisted Merlita Gallardo of Bayambang, Pangasinan in the hauling read more…

Input interventions such as foliar spray fertilizer, specifically bio-cozyme, N.E.B, carrageenan, and amino plus, were distributed to farmers in Ilocos Sur today to service more than 27 hectares of rice land across the 23 municipalities of District 2. Five associations namely Calao-an Farmers and Fisheries’ Association, Ranget Bileg Farmers’ Association, Sibsibbu Rang ay Association Inc., read more…

As an offshoot of President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr.’s recent official trip in China, Manila assigned diplomats Mr. Bai Xun and Mr. Zhao Yiguang held a visit to various farms in Ilocos Norte. Representing the Ministry of Agriculture in China, Bai and Zhao had a direct consultation with farmers to discuss on commodities with potentials read more…

The cattle fattening project for out-of-school youth (OSY) will be set this year in six trial locations in Ilocos Norte. Right after launching this program last year of December, OSYs in the municipalities of Bangui, Solsona, Marcos, San Nicolas, along with Laoag and Batac City will soon pave the way for the first roll of read more…