From what started as a pursuit to help the Philippines supply its own food, the organization’s creative minds are fueled by the dream of securing and sustaining pork and egg production nationwide.
A Pala’wan Indigenous community’s organic farming practices, using a mix of traditional, modern and agroforestry techniques, is successfully conserving old-growth forests and watersheds in the Mount ...
BAGUIO CITY(PIA) –The SM Foundation together with the local governments of Baguio City and the towns of Sablan and Tuba in Benguet has recently launched the Kabalikat sa Kabuhayan on Sustainable ...
In the uplands of the Philippines’ Iloilo province, Indigenous Suludnon farmers maintain deep connections to the agroecosystem that has sustained their community for generations. Agroforestry systems ...
President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. visited the Metro Pacific Fresh Farms (MPFF) on Wednesday, the Philippines’ largest greenhouse facility in San Rafael, Bulacan, which aims to share modern farming ...
THE town of Labrador in Pangasinan is a candidate site to host the Philippines’ first modern nuclear power plant, creating a ...
THE Philippine Rice Research Institute said it is expanding its Scaling, Modern, and Adaptive Rice Technologies for Better Rice-Farming Communities (SMART Farm) to use drones to seed and fertilize ...
NUEVA ECIJA, Philippines — In the Philippines, people say, “Bigas ay buhay”: “Rice is life.” It’s a neutral canvas for every meal. Other foods are often served as “ulam,” the topping or side dish for ...
Modern farming habits boosting yields today may quietly strip soils of their resilience, threatening long-term fertility and ...
MANILA (Reuters) -The Philippine economy grew at its fastest annual pace in a year in the second quarter, buoyed by a sharp rebound in agriculture and resilient domestic consumption, offering the ...
The Philippines plans to broadly extend its ban on rice imports until April to support farmers in the world’s biggest buyer ...
Decades after independence, the Philippines lacks the kind of factory economy that has lifted up other Asian nations, tying millions to farm work. Plantation workers picking ...