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Consumers: Paying the cost of agri players’ inefficiencies

By Fidel O. Abalos | October 4, 2015 - 10:00am

Recently, in the opening of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Policy Partnership on Food Security Meeting in Iloilo, the country’s Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR)

Freeman Cebu Business

Thai group to invest in local corn farms

By Wilma Yamzon | April 6, 2014 - 12:00am

Thai conglomerate Charoen Pokphand (CP) Group, a multi billion firm in Thailand, is investing  in Vigan, Ilocos Sur after  signing a sustainable corn production deal with the Provincial Government of Ilocos...

Agriculture

Pinoy agri sector nagkaisa vs smuggling, PDAF

By Butch M. Quejada | October 17, 2013 - 12:00am

Nagsanib pwersa ang iba’t ibang grupong pang-agrikultura sa bansa sa pagkondena sa umano’y patuloy na smuggling, di-patas na mga patakaran at pangungulimbat ng pondo ng bayan sa ngalan ng sektor pan...

Bansa

DA wants say in grant of agri perks

March 18, 2013 - 12:00am

Agriculture Secretary Proceso Alcala has asked the Board of Investments (BOI) to defer to the department before granting tax incentives to businesses engaged in agriculture.

Business

PHL: Not true as advertised?

By Fidel O. Abalos | March 18, 2013 - 12:00am

At the advent of globalization, every nation in the globe prepared for a long grind towards prosperity and stability by trying to take a bigger share of the global economy’s pie.  In fact, every facet...

Freeman Cebu Business

SC asked to stop perks granted to Thai food firm

By Edu Punay | March 11, 2013 - 12:00am

The Supreme Court (SC) has been asked to stop the government from granting tax incentive to a Thai food company.

Headlines

‘House committees authorized to hold hearings during break’

By Paolo Romero | February 20, 2013 - 12:00am

Standing and special committees of the House of Representatives have been authorized to conduct public hearings or inquiries during the current campaign break, Speaker Feliciano Belmonte Jr. said yesterday.

Headlines

P-Noy questions perks granted to Thai firm

By Michael Punongbayan | January 28, 2013 - 12:00am

President Aquino has questioned the Board of Investments (BOI) for granting a foreign firm a six-year tax holiday, aside from...

Headlines

Hog, poultry industry namemeligro

By Butch M. Quejada | January 18, 2013 - 12:00am

Isang kongresista ang nag-aalala na baka bumagsak ang hog and poultry industry sa bansa dahil sa pagpasok ng dayuhang kompanya na binibigyan ng maraming insentibo ng gobyerno.

Bansa

'Entry of Thai firm will kill local hog, poultry industry'

January 17, 2013 - 10:05am

 Lawmakers on Thursday warned that the entry into the country of a foreign company engaged in the livestock business will kill the hog and poultry industries in the Philippines.

Nation