Organics

MANILA, Philippines – President Benigno S. Aquino recently instructed the Department of Agriculture (DA) and the Department of Department of Budget and Management (DBM) to allot at least two percent of the DA’s annual budget for national organic agriculture program.

President Benigno Aquino III has directed the Department of Agriculture to ensure that two percent of its annual budget is allocated for organic farming projects. That means organic farming is assured of a P600-million share in the department’s P30 billion budget for the year.

Natural and organic farming in the country is expected to get a big boost with the holding of the 8th National Organic Agriculture Conference (NOAC) in Tarlac City from November 9 to 11, where about 800 organic farming practitioners, advocates and enthusiasts from Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao are set to meet and exchange ideas.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) – The debate between natural and organic products has risen in recent years with the increased popularity of organic products.

SAMAL, Bataan: About 90 percent of the total number of farmers in the country is still dependent on the expensive imported inorganic fertilizers with only a little over 10 percent practicing organic farming, a leader of a nongovernmental organization said over the weekend.

MANILA, Philippines –  Visit a Health Express store and you will find six herbal products there with labels that Filipinos from remote provincial areas might readily understand.

THE Organic Producers and Trade Association Philippines Inc. (OPTA) on Tuesday presented to the Department of Agriculture a roadmap for organic agriculture for the next three to five years.

THE Department of Agriculture plans to commercialize an organic pesticide for bananas to help prolong the shelf-life of the fruits during transit to overseas markets.

Mounting health concerns over the widespread use of chemical-based pesticides and fertilizers, along with the increasing preference for healthier food through more sound growing practices, underscore the need to further promote the same in the local agricultural scene.

Not too many are familiar with AANI, the acronym for Agri-Aqua Network International Inc. which started in the country fifteen years ago primarily to disseminate agricultural and aqua culture technology. This is the organization that is now actively promoting organic farming in the Philippines, supplying our small and medium farm enterprises with the technology needed…

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NAGA CITY – Pushing their advocacy to put natural products in the mainstream market, practitioners of organic farming have opened a market here along the commercial strip of Magsaysay Avenue.

MANILA, Philippines – Green as far as the eye can see. This is what greets farmers every day at the Leonie Agri Corp. (LAC) farm, a 42-hectare verdant tract in the northern Nueva Ecija town of Sta. Rosa.