Ni SHAIRA GABORNESPinoy Weekly Mula sa huling ulat na P109.4 milyon, umabot na sa P151.3 milyon ang halaga ng pinsala sa mga sakahan sa Western Visayas at Zamboanga Peninsula dulot ng El Niño ayon sa Department of Agriculture (DA). May 6,618 metric tons ng palay at mais ang nasayang. Tinatayang...
“Deprived farmers are faced with violent reprisal when they assert their rightful claim to land. This exposes CARP as instrumental to landlords while the majority of our farmers remain landless, poor, and hungry.”
A farmers’ group said the Department of Agrarian Reform’s (DAR) mega-farm project proposal is not viable without genuine land reform and subsidies for farmers, proposing the immediate lowering of prices of farm inputs instead.
ONE OF THE few concrete policy promises Ferdinand Marcos Junior made during his campaign for the Presidency of these isles of forgetfulness was to make rice available at Php20.00 per kilo.
armers and fisherfolk are among those badly hit as oil prices continue to increase.
For Filipino farmers, no amount of historical distortion can wash away the sins of martial law.
Tobacco farmers in the Ilocos Region have urged local governments to provide immediate relief and livelihood support for affected farmers after off-season rain over the weekend flooded tobacco farms in Ilocos Sur, Ilocos Norte, La Union, and Abra.
The Rice Tariffication Law “is equivalent to a death sentence for the local rice industry and rice farmers.”
Ano ang pwedeng gawin para mapigilan ang conversion ng lupaing agrikultural?
Despite the recorded damages on vegetable farms in the region after the onslaught of Typhoon Maring (Kompasu), the prices of temperate vegetables dropped according to the price monitoring of the Department of Agriculture-Cordillera Administrative Region (DA-CAR).
Hit hard by government’s greater dependence on food importation during the coronavirus pandemic, farmers have demanded P15,000 production subsidy in next year’s national budget.
A women farmers’ group urged the Duterte administration to rechannel the proposed P30.46 billion ($607.5 million) budget for the counterinsurgency agency to subsidize food production instead.
The Rodrigo Duterte government targets and forces farmers to pose as surrenderers and be counted as trophies in its anti-insurgency campaign, an investigation by a farmers’ group revealed.