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Presidential Assistant for Northern Luzon Ernie Mendoza said the four areas are located in Batac, Ilocos Norte, this town in Ilocos Sur, Rosales, Pangasinan, and in Sto. Tomas, La Union.


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AGRICULTURE SECRETARY WILLIAM DAR

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Plant food to alleviate hunger in countryside, agri SUCs urged

By Rainier Allan Ronda | April 14, 2011 - 12:00am

To address the reported rise in the incidence of hunger in the country, the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) wants all state agricultural colleges and universities to plant food, especially vegetables, in their...

Education and Home

4 areas picked to pilot sweet sorghum farming

By Teddy Molina | February 11, 2007 - 12:00am

STA. MARIA, Ilocos Sur – Four farming areas in the Ilocos region have been  designated for the pilot planting of sweet sorghum, a crop that will...

Agriculture

DA, DOST launch national IT center

By Rudy A. Fernandez | February 5, 2007 - 12:00am

It’s simply called NITS. It stands for National Information and Technology Services center, a facility that looks forward to broadening the horizons of information delivery systems in the country....

Technology

Where students are real farmers

By FROM THE STANDS | By Domini M. Torrevillas | April 20, 2004 - 12:00am

Visitors to the Central Luzon State University campus in Munoz, Nueva Ecija, leave for home with gifts of a sack of rice, quail and chicken eggs, mangoes, tomatoes and onions grown in the fields. We were given our...

Opinion

Arroyo creates Palace office for agricultural adviser

April 15, 2001 - 12:00am

More than a month after appointing former Bulacan Rep. Angelito Sarmiento (Lakas) as among her Cabinet-rank advisers, President Arroyo has created for him the Office of the Presidential Adviser on Agricultural Modernization...

Headlines