Philippines

DUMAGUETE CITY – Some 200 farmers and local officials attended on Wednesday a seminar on urban agriculture of the Agriculture Training Institute (ATI) in Region 7 (Central Visayas) at a mall here. ATI is the training arm of the Department of Agriculture. In an interview, Doris Isabel Racho, ATI-7 public information officer, said the Agri-Talk is in line with a national government program… Read more

The Asian Food and Agriculture Cooperation Initiative (AFACI) has awarded the communications head of the Bureau of Agricultural Research (BAR) as the 2018 Most Outstanding Principal Investigator (PI) of the ATIN project in the Philippines. This is the second time that BAR Applied Communications head Julia Lapitan was given the prestigious award, besting representatives from 13… Read more

Groups urge Filipinos to buy local rice and support Filipino farmers as they feel the severe effects of the rice tariffication law. Read more here: https://www.rappler.com/move-ph/239348-what-people-can-do-help-rice-farmers-philippines Read more

Based on a report issued by the Asia Roundtable on Food Innovation for Improved Nutrition, the World Health Organization estimates 23.6 percent of Filipino adults above the age of 18 are overweight. In the report, Dr. Cecilia Acuin, Chief Science Research Specialist at the Nutritional Assessment and Monitoring Division at the Food and Nutrition Research Institute, noted that women… Read more

The Northern Philippines Root Crops Research and Training Center of Benguet State University (BSU-NPRCRTC), in partnership with the Department of Agriculture Bureau of Agricultural Research, is promoting orange-fleshed sweetpotato (OFSP) in order to solve vitamin A deficiency in the Cordillera Administrative Region.Based on the survey conducted by researchers from BSU-NPRCRTC, it showed that… Read more

Everyone knows what fast food is. But have you heard of ‘slow food?’ we find out what exactly that means. What is the Slow Food Movement? Slow Food [ slowfood.com ] is an international organization dedicated to preserving indigenous plants and livestock as well as traditional recipes, cooking methods, and foodways AKA how society interacts with its food, from growing to harvesting or… Read more

The jump in the country’s innovation ranking in this year’s edition of the Global Innovation Index (GII) to 54th from 73rd last year is a spectacular feat. The latest ranking reflects the ingenuity and, more important, the resourcefulness of Filipinos. This is because the improvement in ranking was achieved despite the fact that the Philippines remains a laggard in terms of research and… Read more

To avoid possible food poisoning and other incidents that pose health risks to learners, the Department of Education (DepEd) reminded regional and division offices to establish teams that will monitor food safety standards and the guidelines on operations of school canteens. Following reports of a suspected food poisoning incident involving at least 40 Junior High School students at the Imus… Read more

We are currently at an age I’d like to call the “online revolution.” If we are to compare life today with that from 10 or 20 years ago, everything has changed and evolved that even basic things like communication have advanced. The business sector is not an exemption. It has greatly changed its landscape to maximize the “online revolution” that we are in right now. Almost every… Read more

To increase awareness on the importance of proper nutrition, the Department of Education (DepEd) enjoined all public and private schools to participate in the celebration of the 2019 Nutrition Month this July. With theme “Kumain nang wasto at maging aktibo… Push natin ‘to!,” DepEd said that the Nutrition Month celebration aims to “promote the consumption of healthy diets, increased… Read more