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[Title] => Agri sector sees 3%-4% growth
[Summary] => The agriculture sector’s growth could slow down this year to three to four percent, weakened by the carryover effects of the destructive typhoons last December and a prolonged drought in the first semester.
"That is our fighting target," said Agriculture Secretary Arthur Yap, adding that unfavorable weather would affect major subsectors such as crops and fisheries.
[DatePublished] => 2005-04-05 00:00:00
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[AuthorName] => Rocel Felix
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[ArticleID] => 263857
[Title] => Budget crunch forces DA to reduce rice production target
[Summary] => The government’s budget deficit has prompted the Department of Agriculture (DA) to scale down its much-vaunted Ginintuang Masaganing Ani (GMA) or GMA Rice Program which is supposed to increase this year’s rice production yield and bring the country to a rice self-sufficiency level of 97 percent.
GMA director Francisco Malabanan said in a press briefing that out of the P550 million allocated for the rice program this year, the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) has released P181 only million so far.
[DatePublished] => 2004-09-07 00:00:00
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[ArticleID] => 262789
[Title] => Government trims rice production target
[Summary] => Agriculture Secretary Arthur C. Yap said the rice production target this year under the Ginintuang Masaganang Ani or GMA Rice Program will be trimmed to a range of 14.2 million metric tons (MT) to 14.5 million MT.
The revised target is 700,000 MT lower than the Department of Agriculture’s original production target of 14.9 million MT which would have made the country 97-percent self-sufficient in rice.
The lower target will be finalized next week, Yap said, adding that at 14.3 million MT the country still be 93 percent to 94-percent self-sufficient in rice.
[DatePublished] => 2004-08-27 00:00:00
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[ArticleID] => 259388
[Title] => Hybrid rice program may be scaled down
[Summary] => The government may be forced to trim its target of planting 200,000 hectares to high-yielding hybrid rice seeds this year and possibly next year as the program is being wobbled by budgetary constraints.
Leocadio Sebastian, executive director of the Philippine Rice Research Institute (Philrice), said the original target of 200,000 hectares for the wet cropping season from May to October this year may have to be reduced to 150,000 hectares based on the government’s current distribution rate of hybrid rice seeds.
[DatePublished] => 2004-07-30 00:00:00
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[ArticleID] => 255483
[Title] => RP starts exporting high-end rice varieties
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The Philippines, close to achieving self-sufficiency in rice, has started exporting high-end rice varieties.
A trial shipment of about 10 metric tons (MT) so far this year found its way into supermarket shelves of test markets such as Dubai and Switzerland. This volume is expected to increase as exporters are setting their sights on potentially-rich niche markets in Hong Kong, the US and the Middle East.
[DatePublished] => 2004-06-27 00:00:00
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[ArticleID] => 243901
[Title] => DA seeks Malacañang approval for P600-M ‘farm-to-table’ project
[Summary] => The Department of Agriculture (DA) is seeking Malacañang approval for its P600-million "farm-to-table" project which supports government’s efforts to achieve self-sufficiency in rice by pumping all of the required inputs and infrastructure.
Agriculture Secretary Luis Lorenzo Jr. said the farm-to-table project’s focus will be to initially install irrigation systems to cover 24,000 hectares devoted to planting high-yielding hybrid rice.
[DatePublished] => 2004-03-25 00:00:00
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[ArticleID] => 238091
[Title] => Gov’t eyes 97% rice self-sufficiency this year
[Summary] => The government is targetting to achieve a 97 percent self-suffciency in rice this year with projected palay production of 15 million metric tons (MT).
"We are getting closer to meeting our goal of being self-sufficient in rice and we can do this through a number of interventions to ensure programs meant to achieve our goals will be successful," said Agriculture Secretary Luis P. Lorenzo Jr. in his speech during the Rice Industry Summit held at the PICC last Friday.
[DatePublished] => 2004-02-08 00:00:00
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[ArticleID] => 224464
[Title] => RP to import less rice next year
[Summary] => The country may import less rice next year on account of the expected positive results of measures undertaken to raise palay production, along with the shipment of about 200,000 metric tons (MT) under the US Public Law 480.
Arthur Yap, National Food Authority (NFA) administrator, said there is a strong likelihood that the projected increase in palay output next year will mean lower imports as the Department of Agriculture (DA) continues implementing its quick turnaround (QTA) scheme.
[DatePublished] => 2003-10-17 00:00:00
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[ArticleID] => 219075
[Title] => 4% agri growth achievable — Lorenzo
[Summary] => Better farm inputs and more favorable weather will make it possible for the agriculture sector to achieve its four-percent growth target for the year despite the limited growth in the first semester, Agriculture Secretary Luis Lorenzo Jr. said yesterday.
"The target growth range of 3.3 to 4.3 percent set under the medium-term development program is doable this year despite a slow pickup in the first half. We expect a better performance in the second semester as this is normally the period when production reaches its peak," said Lorenzo.
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