BACOLOD CITY — Producers of organic sugar are seeking urgent government assistance amid the worsening damage to their crops due to El Niño. The Fair Trade Producers Network–Philippines ...

BACOLOD, Philippines – Rising temperatures and lack of rain have devastated vast tracts of sugarcane fields in the Negros provinces, the United Sugar Producers Federations of the Philippines (UNIFED) ...

KIDAPAWAN, North Cotabato — Opposition to the development of the 106-megawatt Mindanao geothermal production field (MGPF) in Mt. Apo that started in the late 1980s was the most challenging ...

Millgate prices per 50-kilogram bag of sugar on Negros Island averaged P2,130 to P2,200, around P380 lower than the supposed production cost ...

BACOLOD CITY, Negros Occidental, Philippines — The drought brought on by the El Niño weather phenomenon has caused a drop in sugar production and an early end to the milling season in some areas in ...

MANILA, Philippines - Rains at the start of the sugar crop year and shortage of cane cutters and haulers are causing cane harvest and sugar recovery in the Visayas—mostly in Negros—to fall, the Sugar ...

The government has started rolling out a P1-billion loan facility for agrarian reform beneficiaries, with a farmers’ cooperative from Negros Occidental province getting the privilege of being the ...

The Department of Agriculture (DA) will kick-start its nationwide seed production program, which seeks to improve the country’s rice productivity through high-yielding varieties, in Negros Occidental.

BACOLOD CITY—The Province of Negros Occidental, through the Provincial Veterinary Office (PVO), is working to expand its milk production through various initiatives, including partnerships. This, ...

MANILA, Philippines — Negros Occidental is set to become the first province in the country to introduce an innovation through a local government unit-funded seed production program that would only ...