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Agri-information officers attend writing workshop April 3, 2012
Sixteen regions participated in the three-day training workshop on news, features and technical writing at El Cielito hotel in Makati City, recently.

The Department of Agriculture (DA) gathered 40 participants nationwide from all of its regional offices to hone the Information Officers’ writing skills and broaden their knowledge on the newest trend in news writing.. . . .
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Makilas Farmers exposure trip April 3, 2012
With a 3.6 million village-type corn postharvest processing center in Makilas, Ipil Zamboanga Sibugay, at least 40 corn farmers from a multi-purpose coopeartive and women’s association joined the exposure trip yesterday to the corn farm of Mr. Leonardo Talania in Kalawit, Zamboanga del Norte. . . .Read more . . .
DA & DTI join for Rubber Stakeholder Forum March 7, 2012

Over 100 participants in attendance to the regional rubber stakeholders’ forum held recently in Ipil, Zamboanga Sibugay. The Department of Agriculture RFU9 and Department of Trade and Industry jointly conducted a forum to gather rubber stakeholders and rubber processors to consult in the finalizing the regional Value Chain Map for Rubber Crumb.
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Pinoy throws 3 tbsp rice daily, says Delima March 4, 2012

Delima who is also the national rice program director said that food sufficiency in 2013 is attainable. By then, “ang tanan natong bugas produkto na sa mag-uumang Pinoy (our rice will be solely produced by Filipino farmers),” he said. In 2010, rice importation totaled 2.4 million metric tons. . .
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Youth gets informed March 2, 2012

Margosatubig, Zamboanga del Sur – Six public and private Secondary Schools actively participated in the Information Dissemination Drive recently conducted by the Department of Agriculture’s Mindanao Rural Development Program - Natural Resources Management (DA-MRDP – NRM) in partnership with Local Government Unit.
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DA supports Farmers strategic Planning Workshop in ZaNorte February 2, 2012
Two cassava strategic Planning workshops will be conducted in Zamboanga del Norte on February 7-8 at Dapatan, Manukan and Feb. 9-10 in Miatan, Katipunan.

The activity is spearheaded by six municipalities namely; Dipolog, Dapitan, Polanco, Katipunan, Roxas and Manukan ( DDPKaRoMa) chaired by the Provincial Governor, Atty. Rolando E. Yebes in partnership with the Department of Agriculture under the leadership of RED Eduardo B. Holoyohoy.
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8th PAFC Summit supporting opportunities for Mindanao January 26, 2012

Zamboanga City holds the 8th Mindanao-wide Provincial Agricultural and Fisheries Council (PAFC) with over 300 participants composed of provincial and municipal AFC officials and members to include famer and fishery leaders, youth and women (from regions 9,10,11,12,13 and ARMM).
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Zambo Farmers complete FFS January 25, 2012
Some 30 farmers, housewives and out-of-school youths of barangay Tagasilay, Vitali, Zamboanga City completed and received their certificate of completion for the season-long Farmers Field School (FFS) on Palay Check last Jan 18, 2012. Sixteen weeks or four months classroom and on-field classes started in October 2011 conducted by the Office of City Agriculturist in partnership with the Department of Agriculture Regional Field
Unit 9 . . .
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Prime Movers' Forum held in ZdN & ZSP December 27, 2011

Two Information Officers' fora were recently conducted by the Department of Agriculture-Regional Agriculture and Fisheries Information Division (DA-RAFID) in the provinces of Zamboanga Peninsula, first in Zamboanga del Norte and second in Zamboanga Sibugay.
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Brgy. Buenavista & Boalan IAs receives CIS worth 5MPhP December 22, 2011

The National Irrigation Administration (NIA) turned over two Communal Irrigation System (CIS) to the Irrigators’ Associations (IAs) of Buenavista - Curuan and Boalan barangays in Zamboanga City on December 16 and 20, 2011, respectively.


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Cooperatives get PhP1M Bio-N Mixing Plants December 21, 2011

Two cooperatives in Region 9 recently received 500 thousand pesos each from the National Food Authority – Corn Development Fund. In coordination with the Department of Agriculture-Bureau of Soils and Water Management (DA-BSWM) Bio-tech and the University of the Philippines in . . .
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NBACA conduct Year-End meeting in Zamboanga City December 15, 2011

The Department of Agriculture-National Bids and Awards Committee Association (DA-NBACA) conducted a three-day meeting at Garden Orchid Hotel recently.

Dr. Aida P. Carino, Regional Technical Director (RTD) of DA RFU 9, lauded the officers and ...
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