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- Industry brings up fisheries dep't campaign promiseGalang, Vincent Mariel P. (BusinessWorld Publishing Corporation, 2019-12-11)The fisheries industry continued its lobbying for the establishment of a Department of Fisheries, saying a dedicated Cabinet-level office will better promote the sector’s development. “Once and for all tinatawag namin ang pansin ng ating presidente, Rodrigo (R.) Duterte na ito ay isang campaign promise (we are calling the attention of our President Rodrigo R. Duterte, because this was his campaign promise),” Joseph Martin H. Borromeo, board member of the National Fisheries Research and Development Institute (NFRDI), said at a news conference Tuesday in Quezon City.
- DA-BFAR project opens wider access to skills and knowledge in fish farming(Philippine Business Daily Mirror Publishing, Inc., 2021-02-08)Interested groups or individuals may now avail of the Department of Agriculture’s Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources’ (DA-BFAR) collection of aquaculture technology as the agency made it more accessible during its virtual launching on Monday, February 8, 2021, in Quezon City. A component of the “Aqua Negosyo Para sa Pilipino” initiative of the DA-BFAR, the project emphasizes that the key to successful agribusiness, including aquaculture enterprise, is acquiring the right knowledge and technical skills. It also integrates the One DA approach to strategic communication, while hitting another of the agriculture department’s key initiative of jump-starting agribusiness and spurring entrepreneurial and economic development in the countryside through the establishment of Agro-Industrial Business Corridors (ABC).
- Agri chief assures Metro food supplies ‘more than enough'Gomez, Eireene Jairee; Valente, Catherine S. (The Manila Times Publishing Corporation, 2020-03-14)The Department of Agriculture (DA) on Friday assured the public that the community quarantine had not affected food supplies for Metro Manila. “We have determined that there is enough supply of all basic goods that can be traded in Metro Manila,” Agriculture Secretary William Dar told a news briefing in Quezon City. Fish demand is at 8,000 MT per week, with supply at 10,264 MT per week. The stocks come from Ilocos, Mimaropa (Mindoro, Marinduque, Romblon and Palawan) Central Luzon, Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources and Philippine Fisheries Development Authority-Navotas.
- RP aquaculture sector benefits from BFAR-SEAFDEC programFernandez, Rudy A. (Philippine Star Printing Co., Inc., 2002-06-02)The country's aquaculture sector continues to benefit considerably from a program jointly being implemented by a government agency and a Southeast Asian center. Called Joint Mission for Accelerated Nationwide Technology Transfer Program (JMANTTP), the undertaking was launched in January 1999 by the Department of Agriculture-Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (DA-BFAR) and the government-hosted Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center Aquaculture Department (SEAFDEC AQD) based in Tigbauan, Iloilo. The program was convinced to make available technologies developed at SEAFDEC AQD to its host country, the Philippines.