Tag: Agriculture
COMMENTARY: Shallow understanding of food security
LAST time around, I wrote about the pathetic state of Philippine agriculture, particularly rice farming, and hoped that the Department of Agriculture’s plan to...
Food-security emergency sums up pathetic state of agriculture
PATHETIC.
This about sums up the state of Philippine agriculture—rice farming to be more precise.
How else explain that we imported 4.68 million metric tons of...
Agri Q4 and 2024 output down 2.2% on typhoon, El Niño damage
The agriculture and fisheries output in the fourth quarter of last year dropped 2.2 percent year-on-year, dragging the sector’s full-year production by the same...
Alibaba Cloud uses AI to help autistic kids, smart agriculture
IMAGINE a picture book that created with artificial intelligence (AI) specifically for children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The AI tool transforms one-sentence plot...
Weather-related agri damage now at P307.7M vs previous estimate P67.7M
Damage sustained by the agriculture sector from weather disturbances has reached P307.72 million as of Jan. 22, a 354.7 percent surge from P67.68 million...
