Out of the twenty-four (24) agri-fishery commodities covered in the Provincial Commodity Investment Plans (PCIPs) of the 23 provinces and a city in the North Luzon Cluster, coffee emerged as the leading commodity with the highest total cost of intervention support from the Department of Agriculture – Philippine Rural Development Project (DA-PRDP). Thirty-five (35) subprojects, … read more »

The Department of Agriculture – Philippine Rural Development Project has been instrumental in empowering farmers and developing the agriculture sector in rural communities. Through its technical assistance, the PRDP initiated market connections and credit facilitations, enabling farmer groups and associations with enterprise subprojects to expand their market reach and increase their income. Through the I-REAP … read more »

The Department of Agriculture – Philippine Rural Development (DA-PRDP) North Luzon Cluster poses a positive trajectory of its overall project implementation across the four regions as the cluster accomplished and delivered some of its targets in the year’s first half. This was revealed during the conduct of assessment activity from January 21-22 in Baguio City, … read more »

Enterprise Proponent Groups (PGs) implemented under the Department of Agriculture – Philippine Rural Development Project (DA-PRDP) were trained on potato tuber management from July 8-9 in Baguio City. The trainees were representatives from the following PGs with completed and operational enterprise subprojects on the production of potato tubers: SRT La Trinidad Cooperative of Benguet and … read more »

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 »