The Department of Agriculture – Philippine Rural Development Project (DA-PRDP) Regional Project Coordination Office (RPCO) – CAR conducted a Pre-construction Conference on June 8, for the upcoming construction of a coffee processing facility at barangay Mainit, Bontoc, Mountain Province. Attendees are representatives from the DA-PRDP, Bontoc Municipal Project Management and Implementing Unit (MPMIU), officers and … read more »

The Talavera Municipal Project Management and Implementation Unit (MPMIU) from the province of Nueva Ecija underwent a re-orientation and workshop on the Department of Agriculture – Philippine Rural Development Project (DA-PRDP) Scale-Up guidelines, facilitated by the Regional Project Coordination Office (RPCO 3), on June 7-8, 2023 Led by Action Officer Engr. Michael Manansala, the DA-PRDP … read more »

Boasts of their Arabica and Robusta coffee products, coffee-producing groups in the Cordillera with enterprise development subprojects under the Department of Agriculture – Philippine Rural Development Project (DA-PRDP), has once again joined this year’s Philippine Coffee Expo which ran from June 2-4, 2023 at the World Trade Center in Pasay City. The enterprise Proponent Groups … read more »

The Department of Agriculture – Philippine Rural Development Project (DA-PRDP) Central Luzon (RPCO 3) gathered the stakeholders of the broiler chicken industry on May 9, 2023 and the hog industry on May 16, 2023 in the City of San Fernando, Pampanga, for a consultation on the Value Chain Analysis (VCA) of the said commodities. Stakeholders … read more »

Two years after proposing a breeding and hatchery facility for milkfish, locally known as bangus in the country, the provincial government of Pangasinan continues to actively collaborate with the Philippine Rural Development Project (PRDP) in anticipation for the subproject’s (SPs) inclusion under Scale-Up funding.  On June 6, Tuesday, PRDP staff from the National Project Coordination … read more »

A total of 22 agri-infrastructure development subprojects (SPs) with a project cost of Php3.5B were endorsed under the Department of Agriculture – Philippine Rural Development Project (DA-PRDP) – Regional Project Coordination Office 1 (RPCO I) for funding under the PRDP Scale-Up phase.  Nine of these SPs are in the province of Pangasinan, four in La … read more »

Beyond the implementation of enterprise development subprojects under the Department of Agriculture-Philippine Rural Development Project (DA-PRDP), technology and skills trainings along with monitoring activities and enterprise assessments are being conducted to further support the Proponent Groups (PGs) in operating and sustaining their enterprises.  In CAR, the PGs of 49 out of 52 completed enterprise subprojects … read more »

The provincial government of Bataan and the Department of Agrcitulture – Philippine Rural Development Project (DA-PRDP) spearheaded the groundbreaking ceremony of the Sitio Nazareno-Culis farm-to-market road (FMR) in Hermosa, Bataan. The 5.72-kilometer FMR will support the hauling of a variety of commodities such as mango, coconuts, banana, and upland vegetables. “We take pride of this … read more »

Farmer-members from various Proponent Groups (PGs) of operational enterprise subprojects in the Cordillera provinces implemented under the Department of Agriculture-Philippine Rural Development Project (DA-PRDP) participated in the Training on Digital Marketing held from May 3-5 in Baguio City. The training was intended to broaden the knowledge and skills of the PGs in establishing and developing … read more »

A P180-million fish landing and trading facility will soon rise in Orani, Bataan as the Provincial Government and the Department of Agrciulture – Philippine Rural Development (DA-PRDP) held the groundbreaking ceremony on April 20, 2023. Fishing and aquaculture are two of the major activities in the province and Orani is considered one of the main … read more »