by Angie Quadra-Balibay | Oct 4, 2019 | Good Travel
The Philippines’ strategy for farm tourism will benefit farmers and fisherfolk, the Department of Tourism (DOT) said at the Farm Tourism Summit. DOT Secretary Bernadette Romulo-Puyat emphasized the agency’s priority program for farm tourism saying citing...
by Angie Quadra-Balibay | Aug 5, 2019 | Good Tech
A new online portal called e-Magsasaka is offering buyers fruits and vegetables direct from farmers’ harvests. The new website shortens the mass produce supply chain by directly connecting farm mass producers and buyers. The e-Magsasaka team led by Gorby...
by The Good News Pilipinas Team | Jun 11, 2019 | Good Tech
Abra farmers from model farms are now skilled at maintaining their Solar Powered Irrigation System (SPIS). The SPIS harnesses solar energy and open water sources to irrigate the model farms. Farmers from the four model farms in the municipalities of Bucay, Danglas, La...
by Conrad Tolentino | Jan 15, 2019 | Good Business
Typhoon Yolanda devastated lives and destroyed livelihoods and businesses. Among those that suffered greatly was the now international “cosmeceutical” company VMV Hypoallergenics. Almost all VMV cosmeceutical (cosmetics that are supposed to have medicinal properties)...
by Rima Jessamine Granali | Sep 25, 2018 | Good Business
When super typhoon Yolanda struck the country in 2013, it destroyed almost everything Retchel Pasturan’s family owned. “Nahurot. Naguba dyud totally an balay (Gone. Our house was totally damaged),” Pasturan, a 35-year-old backyard farmer in Ormoc City, said....
