With the goal of revitalizing Laguna’s agricultural sector, the provincial government has formed a technical working group (TWG) to develop its farm-to-market road network.

Laguna LGU forms team for farm-to-market road network

DA's ATI opens e-library

One of the biggest challenges to farmers in the Philippines is the lack of adequate learning resources that could help them improve their farm practices.

Agriculture education made more accessible

Despite ongoing challenges in the livestock industry, pork prices in wet markets across Eastern Visayas remain within the suggested retail price (SRP). 

EV pork prices steady despite challenges

As part of its drive to entice more Filipinos, particularly the younger generation, to engage in agriculture, the Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Training Institute (DA-ATI) in Calabarzon has expanded its overseas agriculture internship program to include college graduates from non-agriculture courses.

DA-ATI opens internship to non-agri graduates

When the Department of Agriculture (DA) rolled out its first-ever mobile soils laboratory (MSL) in Eastern Visayas this month, it was more than just the launch of a shiny new van filled with equipment. 

Soil science on wheels

The National Food Authority (NFA) in Eastern Visayas said it is now ready for the regionwide distribution of P20 per kilo rice under the "Benteng Bigas Meron Na" program of the Department of Agriculture (DA).


NFA-8 ready for rollout of P20 per kilo rice

BATANGAS CITY -- There is a new grains terminal and trading station established in this city through the efforts of the private sector, particularly the Sorosoro Ibaba Development Cooperative (SIDC) and the national government.

Grains hub in Batangas opens

Two farmers’ cooperatives and associations (FCAs) in Eastern Visayas have secured financial grants under the Enhanced Kadiwa Financial Grant Program of the Department of Agriculture (DA).

Farmers' groups receive funding from DA

Even before the Department of Agriculture (DA) officially rolled out its much-ballyhooed P20-a-kilo rice program – one of the top campaign pledges of the administration of President Ferdinand Marcos, Jr – a farmer’s group in Victoria, Laguna had been selling rice at that price. 

Even before DA, Victoria farmers had been selling P20 rice

After delays caused by the May 12 elections, the Department of Agriculture (DA) is finally rolling out its much-anticipated P20 per kilogram rice program in selected areas in Laguna province.


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