Millers seek standard corn tariff
The Philippine Association of Feed Millers (PAFMI) renewed its call for the standardization of corn tariffs to help strengthen local production of agricultural products like meat, eggs and fish.
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Retain 5% corn tariff – feed millers
MANILA, Philippines — The Philippine Association of Feed Millers (PAFMI) on Thursday urged the government to keep the 5% tariff on corn to safeguard “local meat, egg, and fish production.”
PH, Malawi agree to agricultural enhancement, student exchange – Presidential Communications Office
President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. and Non-Resident Malawi Ambassador to the Philippines H.E. Kwacha Chisiza agreed on Thursday to further enhance the cooperation between the two countries in terms of agriculture and student exchange.
DA’s P167.5-B National Expenditure Program gets thumbs up from Congress
The 2024 National Expenditure Program (NEP) of the Department of Agriculture (DA) amounting to P167.5 billion (B), which is six percent higher than its 2023 funds under the General Appropriations Act (GAA), has been approved by the House of Representatives on September 25, 2023.
Super typhoon Saola threatens northern Philippines
MANILA: Tropical storm Saola has intensified into a super typhoon, the Philippine weather bureau said on Sunday, raising the possibility of heavy rain and powerful winds hitting important rice and corn growing areas in northern provinces. Saola, with maximum winds of up to 185 kph near its centre and gusts of up to 230 kph, was over coastal waters of Isabela province early on Sunday, the bureau said in a bulletin. Heavy rainfall was expected later on Sunday and on Monday in the provinces of Isabela, Cagayan, Ilocos and the mountainous Cordillera region, raising the risk of flooding and landslides, the weather bureau said. These provinces are among the country's biggest rice, corn and vegetable producers.
More farmers’ groups join calls to remove Diokno, Balisacan
MANILA, Philippines — More farmers’ groups joined the calls for President Marcos to remove Finance Secretary Benjamin Diokno and Socioeconomic Planning Secretary Arsenio Balisacan over their alleged preferential treatment on importation by moving to bring down tariffs on rice and other imported agricultural products.