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Notice of Vacant Position at the DA-RFO 8
FINANCIAL SUBSIDY FOR RICE FARMERS
Get to know more the Financial Subsidy for Rice Farmers (FSRF). Check the infographics below.
LATEST NEWS
If you will recall, just last month I posted the story of a 40-year old farmer from Brgy. Bulod, Sta. Fe, Leyte who was generous enough to spare at least 20 free packs of his farm produce everyweek for his neighbors. He had done this, since the onslaught of Covid-19 pandemic which started in March, this year.
Boss Tiboy: From a research station manager to full-time farmer
Mr. Primitivo Llano or simply “Boss Tiboy” to his former officemates, has spent most of his 32 years at the Department of Agriculture (DA). He started off as a research staff in 1978 at the Salcedo Seed Farm and retired in 2007 as the Research Station Manager of San Jorge Experiment Station, San Jorge Samar .
CPAR and real farmers' stories
Have you ever wondered why DA is continually assisting farmers through sustained implementation of the Community-based Participatory Action Research or CPAR?
Walk the talk: Plant, plant, plant
To maximize the celebration of Labor Day, DA RFO 8's Regional Executive Director, Angel C. Enriquez visited two research experiment stations, to monitor the implementation of various research projects, anchored on the Plant, Plant, Plant Program.
From total ban to regulated flow of live hogs, pork, etc.
The long wait is over! Finally, the much awaited easing up of Southern Leyte seaports, as what many traders and local consumers have been requesting was acted favorably by Governor Damian G. Mercado.
FEATURE ARTICLES
If one is updated on recent developments, surely he/she would not have missed the clear and present danger posed by diseases hounding the livestock industry.
From learner to preacher: Albert Tampus advocates the use of Bio Gas Digester
“I am happy to share what I know. I will be happier to see more farmers like me having better lives with reduced expenses and saving the world mitigate pollution,” Albert Tampus, 52, said.
Hybrid Rice Farmer in Leyte Rises
Born and raised in the rural area of Barangay Cabangkalan, Sta. Fe, Leyte and getting to grips with manual and conventional rice production was initially a “toxic job” for 49-year old Lorenzo C. Caca, Jr.
Nature’s twist of events has it that five (5) years after super typhoon Yolanda’s fatal giant waves wreaked havoc in Brgy. San Antonio, Basey, Samar, it is now the farmers’ turn to make waves in backyard livestock production.
Qualities of a Good SAAD Farmer’s Association
Since September 2018, the Regional Program Management Support Office (RPMSO) 8 has undertaken the status monitoring of different interventions provided to farmer-beneficiaries. During these field visits, the Monitoring Team has cursorily but keenly observed certain attributes of associations situated in SAAD-covered areas in Region 8 that, when taken together, would ideally make them stand out above the rest.
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