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Domoguen: Save the nation's rice farmers

(Conclusion of a three series article)IN OUR previous article, we mentioned some of the projects and activities of the Cordillera Heirloom Rice Project (CHRP) that played well into the “New Thinking in Agriculture” strategy of Dr. William D. Dar, the ...

From 516 days ago

Domoguen: Save the nation’s rice farmers

IT WAS during my college days, more than three decades ago, that I first heard the phrase, “Save the Rice Terraces.”And like anybody who has been visiting the Cordillera interior, I have seen the ever-increasing number of abandoned rice terraces ...

From 523 days ago

Domoguen: Save the nation’s rice farmers

AFTER it became effective last March, the promised benefits of the Rice Tariffication Law (RTL) still elude its primary beneficiaries – the farmers and consumers.So far, who benefits from its implementation?At this point, your guess is as good as mine.For ...

From 530 days ago

Domoguen: Ensure productivity, profitability of livestock in Cordillera

THE expected government action solving a critical “swine disease” problem that may have dire consequences to the country’s swine industry is forthcoming within the first 100 days of Dr. William (Manong Willy) Dar, as secretary of Agriculture.I am sure that ...

From 537 days ago

Domoguen: Session Road of Fruits, "a new tradition" begins

FIRST, here is wishing all Baguio folks a Happy Baguio Day and MinDA Fruit Festival.So a "New Tradition" begins at Session Road, during the observance of Baguio Day, I hope, thanks to Mayor Benjie Magalong and Secretary Emmanuel Piñol of ...

From 544 days ago

Domoguen: Modernizing highland agriculture

MOUNTAIN farming is mostly “family farming.”There is more to the observation in the Cordillera highlands. It is also “community farming too.”At different altitudes in our mountains, with their fragmented landscapes and different climates, dispersed patches of useable land for agriculture ...

From 550 days ago

Domoguen: Creating new story on how food is produced

WITH his assumption of the leadership of the Department of Agriculture (DA), Dr. William D. Dar brought and introduced his "New Thinking" strategy to agricultural development in the Philippines.He has actually discussed this paradigm shift at length in his weekly ...

From 558 days ago

Domoguen: Old Battlegrounds, New Challenges & Many Problems

PRESIDENT Rodrigo Duterte has named Dr. William Dar as the new Agriculture Secretary, effective August 5, 2019.Former Agriculture Secretary Emmanuel Piñol occupied the position in the last three years.Piñol submitted his courtesy resignation as Secretary of Agriculture some two months ...

From 564 days ago

Domoguen: Rice production, demand, marketing in PH still unsound

ON THE second week of July, this year, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) reported that the price of palay is P17.87.In some areas, the price dropped to as low as P12.00.With a mild El Nino in 2018, the growing conditions ...

From 572 days ago

Domoguen: Manny Piñol crafting himself as the farmer's 'Farmer Secretary'

"It takes courage to grow and become who you really are." -- E. E. Cummings.SO WHO are you? It yet brings me to another quote, still from E.E. Cummings. "To be nobody but yourself -- in a world which is ...

From 578 days ago

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