A strategy plan is now being developed by the Department of Agriculture (DA) that will promote the planting of hybrid seeds to 1.5 million hectares of rice land during the dry season, Agriculture Assistant Secretary for Operations Arnel De Mesa said during a briefing on Thursday, February 16. This was after President Ferdinand R. Marcos […]
The Philippine government, through the Corporate Recovery and Tax Incentives for Enterprises (CREATE) Law, is giving generous fiscal incentives for investments in new technologies. Speaking at a forum of the European Chamber of Commerce of the Philippines (ECCP) on Friday, Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) Undersecretary Rafaelita Aldaba said the CREATE Law is aligned […]
Seeing the potential of the country’s e-commerce, a Philippine-based e-commerce startup has raised USD10.7 million from regional and global investors to expand its business. SariSuki, a virtual sari-sari store startup founded by former president of Grab Philippines and co-founder of Zalora Brian Cu, got funding from Openspace, Susquehanna International Group (SIG), Global Founders Capital (GFC), […]
Small-scale farmers can adopt affordable technologies to get them aboard smart agriculture initiatives while governments continuously invest also in the basics to speed up smart agricultural transformation (SAT), an expert said. Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS) Research Fellow Roehlano Briones said smart agriculture covers a wide range of technologies, some of which could be […]
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