Department of Agriculture (DA) Region IV-CALABARZON, through the Management Information System (MIS), conducted the In-Depth Training on System Access and Maintenance for Automated Weather Station (AWS), held at Southern Tagalog Integrated Agricultural Research Center in Lipa City, Batangas on October 2, 2020. Precision agricultural technology aims to provide local climate conditions and optimized farming – continue reading

  Department of Agriculture (DA) Region IV-CALABARZON, through the Adaptation and Mitigation Initiative in Agriculture – AMIA, is collaborating with the University of the Philippines-Los Baños (UPLB) and the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical, and Astronomical Services Administration (PAG-ASA) to discuss the use of weather forecast technologies as the region prepares for the coming cropping season of 2021, happened – continue reading

  Department of Agriculture (DA) Region IV-CALABARZON, in collaboration with the Department of Energy and Phoenix Gas Station, conducted the KAtuwang sa DIwa at GaWA (KADIWA) ni Ani at Kita Project sa Phoenix, in Brgy. Bukal, Pagbilao, Quezon on September 30, 2020.   The activity is being spearheaded by the Agribusiness and Marketing Assistance Division – continue reading

  Department of Agriculture (DA) Region IV-CALABARZON, together with the Bureau of Plant Industry-National Seed Quality Control Services (BPI-NSQCS) and the Philippine Rice Research institute (PhilRice) Los Baños, met with CALABARZON seed growers to conduct a consultative meeting geared towards higher crop yields for the coming 2021 dry and wet seasons, held at Southern Tagalog – continue reading

  In an effort to streamline, facilitate, and promote the mechanism of the Regional Monitoring and Evaluation System (RMES) for the Organic Agriculture (OA) Program, a retooling activity with some 30 agricultural extension workers (AEWs) in Quezon province was conducted by the Regional Organic Agriculture Program (ROAP) of the Department of Agriculture (DA) Region IV-CALABARZON – continue reading

  Under the rehabilitation program for Taal-affected cities and municipalities and the Quick Response Fund for Fall Armyworm (FAW), Department of Agriculture (DA) Region IV-CALABARZON, through the Regional Corn and Cassava Program, distributed P1,140,845 worth of agricultural inputs for corn production to a total of 140 corn farmers in Cavite, Laguna, and Batangas, held on – continue reading

  Department of Agriculture (DA) Region IV-CALABARZON, through its Corn and Cassava Program, has awarded each of the Magdalena, Laguna and the City Agricultural and Fishery Council Business Group in Dasmariñas, Cavite corn and cassava farmers with moisture meter. The local government of Magdalena received the new agricultural tool from the regional office on September – continue reading

  In response to Agriculture Secretary William D. Dar’s call for regions to increase rice production in low-yielding provinces and maintain or improve rice productivity in high-yielding areas this upcoming dry season, Department of Agriculture (DA) Region IV-CALABARZON met with the Office of the Provincial Agriculturist (OPA) from all provinces in the region to conduct – continue reading

  Department of Agriculture (DA) Region IV-CALABARZON, in partnership with the Department of Energy and Unioil, started to roll its KAtuwang sa DIwa at GaWA (KADIWA) ni Ani at Kita Project on Wheels in Unioil Anabu-1 and Unioil Anabu-2 in Imus City, Cavite on September 5, 2020. This KADIWA partnership project will bring farmers’ fresh and quality produce – continue reading

  As part of the call by the Department of Agriculture (DA) for everyone to engage in urban agriculture, a family from Tagkawayan, Quezon has already harvested its fruit nay’ vegetable of labor. Rebecca Marquez An and her family began planting vegetables on April 14 and it has been plentiful since they share their produce – continue reading

  Department of Agriculture (DA) Region IV-CALABARZON, in coordination with the Army Reserve Command (ARESCOM) based in Camp Riego de Dios in Tanza, Cavite, have celebrated the graduation of 49 new organic agriculture enthusiasts under the regional office’s Farmers Field School (FFS) in Organic Vegetable Production Program on August 20, 2020.   From April 30 – continue reading