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DA Boosts Business Skills of Region 1 Farmer Entrepreneurs
CALASIAO, PANGASINAN – Farmers in Ilocos region are being empowered to become competent entrepreneurs as the Department of Agriculture continuously provide training for farmer-cooperatives and associations (FCAs). Rhoda Galban of the Department of Agriculture – Regional Field Office I’s Agribusiness and Marketing Assistance Division (AMAD) is positive that the FCAs will become more capacitated and successful read more…
MSEs, farmers showcase products on Kadiwa – ‘Locally Sourced’ exhibit
Department of Agriculture’s Kadiwa ni Ani at Kita continues to bring the best of farmers into the limelight. As a project that strongly supports the direct farmer-to-consumer market linkage, DA-RFO1’s Kadiwa project this time, goes hand in hand with Robinsons Malls’ very own ‘Locally Sourced,’ a program that supports the Micro Small Enterprises (MSEs) in the read more…
DA RFO1 Partners with NFA for Palay Sakay, a Free Hauling Service to Support Rice Farmers
Department of Agriculture Regional Field Office 1, together with National Food Authority, will be providing free hauling services for small cooperative and individual rice farmers in the region. Dubbed as “Palay Sakay: Libreng sakay ng palay, mataas na kita’y tagumpay,” this program is an initiative of DA-RFO1 which aims to provide free hauling of palay read more…
Bringing Better Lives for Families in San Emilio via AMIA Project
“Through AMIA, our living conditions as farmers definitely improved. With the trainings and learnings that the coordinator of the project imparted to us, we learned how we can make use of the available resources we have in the community. The way we do things now, especially in farming is indeed different from what we used read more…
LUELCO Agoo Branch Embraces Kadiwa Market to Support Farmers, Fisherfolk
The management of La Union Electric Cooperative (LUELCO) in Agoo, La Union conveys full support to the Department of Agriculture’s Kadiwa market having known and appreciated its purpose to help farmers and fisherfolk prosper in the region. After the opening of a one-day Kadiwa market today at the LUELCO compound, Institutional Development Manager Mario del read more…
Rice Farmer Beneficiaries of the Department of Agriculture Ilocos Region’s LU CHAMP Program Finally Reaps the Fruit of their Labor
Rice farmer beneficiaries of the Department of Agriculture Ilocos Region’s La Union Clustered Hybrid Advocacy, Mentoring and Partnership (LU CHAMP) program finally reaps the fruit of their labor after planting hybrid rice in a ten-hectare clustered techno-demo farm in the municipalities of Sto. Tomas and Rosario, respectively. 21 farmer cooperators in Sto. Tomas and 11 in read more…
Engaging farmers on research through IFED project
Four months after handing over the vegetable seedlings to their organization, members of the Tambacan Riverside Fisherfolk and Farmers Self-Livelihood Association (TRFFSA) proudly showed-off their vegetable farm to the RAFIS-1 team as a result of the research component of the DA-RFO I’s Innovative Family Enterprise Development (IFED) project. Established at Brgy. Tambacan in Burgos, Pangasinan, read more…