Category: Agriculture

February 9, 2022

A farmer with a heavy load of freshly Harvested Cabbage at Atok, Benguet’s all-year-round cold weather is very conducive to highland vegetable farming.

January 24, 2021

Hand out photo of the vegetable plantations in upland Licuan-Baay town in Abra. Artemio Dumlao/ABN

April 26, 2020

Benguet Governor Melchor Diclas appealed to local chief executives and other officials in the municipalities to allow their farmers to continue to tend to their farms despite the implementation of the enhanced community quarantine due to the COVID-19 threat. RMC PIA-CAR

January 28, 2020

LA TRINIDAD, Benguet- A total of 121 irrigation projects was completed and it generated 3,834 jobs in CY 2019, the National Irrigation Administration-Cordillera (NIA-CAR) reported on Friday (Jan.24). The projects are in line with agency’s mission to improve farmers’ quality of life and contribute to the inclusive growth of the region and to the country […]

July 30, 2019

Marimay Small Reservoir Irrigation Project (SRIP) main canal undergoes concreting. More than 300 farmers benefit from the project which is programmed to irrigate 1,178 hectares of rainfed areas in four barangays of Flora, Apayao.   NIA-CAR/ABN

July 8, 2019

These corn areas in Alfonso Lista, Ifugao will form part of the service area of the ongoing Alfonso Lista Pump Irrigation Project (ALPIP), one of the multi-year major projects of National Irrigation Administration-Cordillera (NIA-CAR). The ALPIP aims to provide sustainable agricultural development by providing substantial and timely water supply for irrigation in agriculture lands in […]

February 10, 2019

A total of 171 irrigation projects were completed in the Cordillera region in 2018, the National Irrigation Authority (NIA)-Cordillera reported on Thursday, February 7. Benito Espique Jr., regional manager of NIA-Cordillera, said the completed irrigation projects which generated more than five thousand jobs will benefit some 7,242 farmers in the region. Espique said Kalinga topped […]

November 10, 2018

After the devastation of typhoon in North Luzon that wrought damages to agriculture, these farmers start planting rice in the fields at Bagabag, Nueva Vizcaya.

September 17, 2018

Muling nanawagan si Sen. Nancy Binay sa Bureau of Customs na ibigay na sa Department of Social Welfare and Development at iba pang ahensiya ang nasabat na P200 milyon halaga ng smuggled na bigas upang makatulong sa mamamayan sa kabila ng pagtaas ng presyo ng mga bilihin.

September 12, 2018

BONTOC, MOUNTAIN PROVINCE – Produced and processed products of the 16 barangays of this capital town are being displayed and sold at the Agri-Crafts Trade Fair at the Circle Rotunda from September 10 up to September 17, 2018.