An additional loan financing amounting to US $450 Million is being requested by the Department of Agriculture (DA) for the Philippine Rural Development Project (PRDP), mainly to cater to the additional demand for rural infrastructure.… Read more »

In a show of strong support to the move to have workplaces that are free from illegal drugs, some 17 heads of government agencies submitted themselves to a voluntary drug testing during the launching of the Drug-Free Workplace Initiative of the Regional Development Council (RDC) 2 and the Regional Peace and Order Council (RPOC) 2.… Read more »

Tuguegarao City – In support to Republic Act No. 10068, otherwise known as the Organic Agriculture Act of 2010 and the National Organic Agriculture Program (NOAP) 2012-2016, the Department of Agriculture-Regional Field Office No. 2 (DA-RFO2) conducted a three-day regional congress on organic agriculture here in the City from June 14 to 16, 2016 at the conference hall of its state-of-the-art Cagayan Valley Integrated Agriculture Laboratory – the very first integrated agricultural laboratory in the Philippines.… Read more »

The population of the Philippines as of August 1, 2015 was 100,981,437, based on the 2015 Census of Population (POPCEN 2015). Almost 100,000 Filipinos were added after more than a year when the Philippines reached the 100 Million last 27 July 2014 when the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) estimated the birth of the 100 Millionth Filipino baby.… Read more »

During the recently held Regional Budget Consultation conducted by the Regional Budget Review Committee (RBRC), the proposed budget of the Department of Education (DepEd) RO2 for 2017 emerged as the highest among the 18 Regional Line Agencies (RLAs) that presented their budgets.… Read more »