Typhoon Pablo damaged coconut crops that amounted to a loss of P33 billion.
Organic farms, herbs, and livestock that boost health and nutrition are being showcased at the Kadayawan festival Wednesday through an Organic Food and Product Fair.
Foreign chambers in Davao want to transform Southern Mindanao from an agri-business to an agro-industrial and manufacturing growth corridor to generate growth and employment.
The Department of Agriculture blamed low supply brought about by crop conversion as the main cause in the price hikes in garlic and rice. Militant farmers, however, decried low goverment subsidy and rapid importation as the culprit of the current problems in agriculture.
FADC spokesperson Pedro Arnado told Davao Today that Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte’s proposal to Paquibato farmers to embrace oil palm "may be enticing", but warns that only businessmen may profit at the expense of farmers.