QUEZON CITY, Feb. 11 — A few hours after the announcement was posted on social media, on February 9, 2021, calling for applicants under the Mentoring and Attracting Youth in Agribusiness (MAYA) program of the Department of Agriculture (DA), the online system was deluged with interested individuals, exceeding by four-fold the required number of interns.
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Among all the crops grown in the Philippines, the much-maligned coconut has the most serious image problem. In stark contrast to bananas, a crowd favorite in Japan and South Korea, Philippine coconut continues to receive bad publicity. It has been like that since the 1980s, when the American Soybean Association said tropical oils, including coconut oil, are saturated fats that can cause heart attacks.
The pandemic has truly disrupted our lives, organizations, and nations. Work-from home, social distancing, and quarantines have become the new normal. With the bleak prospect of a universal vaccine in the foreseeable future, the World Health organization and nations are already singing the same song – we have to learn to co-exist with the coronavirus.
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THE 90 members of the Tapak Farmers Marketing Cooperative (TFMC) received P3.8 million worth of farm machinery from the Davao City Government, the World Bank and the Department of Agriculture (DA) to boost their abaca farm production.
CEBU CITY At least 1,500 coconut farmers will benefit from the PHP15-million Coconut Hub (Cocohub) of the Philippine Coconut Authority (PCA) and Lamac Multi-Purpose Cooperative (LPMC) in the northwestern Cebu town of Tuburan, the Department of Agriculture (DA) in Central Visayas said on Tuesday.
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BALER, Aurora – Military troops and former rebels celebrated on Tuesday the 1st Sinagtala Farm Harvest Festival showcasing the wide array of vegetables and other agricultural crops they planted and harvested together in a one-hectare land in Barangay Calabuanan here.
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COTABATO CITY The Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) on Tuesday kicked off the three-day regional commemoration of this year’s National Coconut Week at the BARMM center here.
Local sugar producers said they prefer that the bulk of the Philippines sugar production for the next crop year would stay here in the country amid the COVID-19 pandemic, but the Department of Agriculture (DA) plan is the complete opposite.
San Juan City will be distributing free seedlings to encourage residents to practice urban gardening and ensure food supply amid the coronavirus pandemic.
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FARMERS of a sorghum pilot farm in Mlang, Cotabato made their first harvest on August 24, 2020, five months after they were given seeds donated by an agribusiness firm in the United States.