MANILA – Total merchandise trade for full year 2017 increased by 9.9 percent as imports and exports posted growth rates higher than government estimates.
Imports and exports posted 10.2 percent and 9.5...
MANILA -- The local aquaculture sector rebounded in 2017 from its 6.27-percent drop in 2016, a complete opposite of the entire Philippine fisheries' performance in the past year.
Philippine aquaculture production rose 1.68...
MANILA -- The Philippine Embassy in Washington DC cited the country's “moderately free” economic status in the Heritage Foundation 2018 Index of Economic Freedom (IEF) as "significantly better" than the global and...
MANILA -- Malacanang on Thursday welcomed the prediction of Nomura, a leading security and investment banking company in Japan, that the Philippines’ economic growth would hit 6.9 percent in 2018.
“We welcome...
DAVAO CITY -- The Department of Agrarian (DAR) has vowed to hasten the distribution of the 584,000 hectares of land to the farmer-beneficiaries under the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP).
DAR undersecretary...
In line with its target to increase local dairy animal and milk production from 1.2% of the national requirement to 10% by 2022, the Department of Agriculture (DA) will put up...
