Using mechanized equipment hastens stripping abaca stacks and improves the quality and market price of abaca fibers. Take it from Mr. Gil Gabales, abaca farmer for 20 years, who switched from wide stripping (laguras) to mechanized stripping for almost a…
SAN JOSE, OCCIDENTAL MINDORO, OCTOBER 02, 2020 – In support of the government’s thrust in agricultural mechanization and modernization in the countryside, the Department of Agriculture-Special Area for Agricultural Development (DA-SAAD) MIMAROPA distributed farm machinery amounting to Php 1,286,000.00 to…
CATANDUANES, OCTOBER 05, 2020 - Brgy. San Marcos, a community where some members belong to an organized group of beneficiaries of the SAAD Program in Catanduanes was declared the champion for the Halaman ni Mang Isko Program - Clean and…
WESTERN VISAYAS, September 11, 2020 - The Department of Agriculture (DA) - Special Area for Agricultural Development (SAAD) Program in Western Visayas completed the distribution of 1,440 free-range native chickens worth Php 979,200.00 to 24 farmers’ associations (FAs) in the…
BOHOL, September 23, 2020 – Seventy-two (72) individual fisherfolks from Pres. Carlos P. Garcia benefited from the Php 1.7 million worth of livelihood assistance under the FY 2019 of Special Area for Agricultural Development (SAAD) Program of the Bureau of…
COTABATO, September 16, 2020 - With its continuous action in assuring full assistance to farmers' necessities, even at times of global health crisis, the Department of Agriculture (DA) - Special Area for Agricultural Development (SAAD) Program ensures to achieve its…
Rice and corn production have been the primary livelihoods of the Cancavan Corn Growers Association (CCGA), a SAAD-funded farmers’ group in Carmen, Surigao del Sur. The first half of the year beginning March is for corn planting while rice is…
ZAMBOANGA DEL NORTE, September 28, 2020- Amid the growing number of CoViD-19 cases in the province, the Department of Agriculture (DA) through the Special Area for Agricultural Development (SAAD) Program in Region 9 delivered 240 bags of feeds to municipalities…
OCCIDENTAL MINDORO, September 29, 2020 - Community participation is an important factor in effective community organizing and sustainable development. SAAD interventions are geared towards helping marginalized communities realize their roles in developing their innate capacity, and comprehensive development in their…
LANAO DEL NORTE, September 25, 2020 - One hundred six (106) individual farmers in Linamon received Php 954,000.00 worth of garden tools with cacao seedlings from the Special Area for Agricultural Development (SAAD) Program under the Integrated Livelihood Project of…