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[Title] => EDITORIAL - Going to waste
[Summary] => Facing a continuing lack of cold storage facilities, farmers in the country must also contend with competition from cheap imports.
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[Title] => ‘Corn farmers risk losing P12 billion from import quota hike’
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[Title] => Farmers seek continued fuel, logistics support
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[Title] => DMCI Homes’ CSR initiative for Benguet farmers wins prestigious Asia Pacific Tambuli Award
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[Title] => How modern techniques are transforming ube farming in Bohol
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[Title] => Water management urged as threat of El Niño looms
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[Title] => Global purple craze brightens hopes for Philippines ube farmers
[Summary] => More than 8,000 kilometers away from an ube farm in Sapang Uwak, Pampanga, New Zealand-based entrepreneur Alonzo Nieves is connecting the dots for his startup export business.
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[Title] => Global purple craze brightens hopes for Philippine ube farmers
[Summary] => The soles of 54-year-old Aloy Cosme are cracked and parched, like land ravaged by a decade-long El Niño. But it was not extreme weather that hardened them. It was 40 years of toiling in ube fields across their ancestral land here on the mountainside of the province.
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[Title] => Financial assistance sought for vegetable farmers
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[Title] => Global Seed Savers transitions to full Philippines operations
[Summary] => Global Seed Savers, a nonprofit organization that has partnered with Filipino farmers for over 16 years to preserve heirloom seeds, protect agricultural biodiversity and strengthen local food systems, is transitioning all its operations to the Philippines, positioning it as a fully Filipino-led and Philippine-based organization.
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[Title] => ‘Corn farmers risk losing P12 billion from import quota hike’
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[Title] => How modern techniques are transforming ube farming in Bohol
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[Title] => Water management urged as threat of El Niño looms
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[Title] => Global purple craze brightens hopes for Philippines ube farmers
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[Title] => Global purple craze brightens hopes for Philippine ube farmers
[Summary] => The soles of 54-year-old Aloy Cosme are cracked and parched, like land ravaged by a decade-long El Niño. But it was not extreme weather that hardened them. It was 40 years of toiling in ube fields across their ancestral land here on the mountainside of the province.
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[Title] => Financial assistance sought for vegetable farmers
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