SLICK INCOME FROM CACAO
Chocolates are almost everybody’s favorites. Made from processed cacao beans, the chocolate’s irresistible and sweet taste has made for its soaring demand. The cacao industry is a source of lucrative livelihood opportunities for growers and businessmen to earn better income.
One such chocolate business located in the bustling City of Cebu, is the House of Chocolate owned by Raquel Choa, a Cebuana chocolate’s connoisseur. Her passion started since her childhood when she made sikwate or hot chocolate from tablea, roasted cacao beans formed into small lumps. She established Ralfe Gourment, Inc. also known as the chocolate boutique with her husband Alfred.
Oplan Kabukiran
The Department of Agriculture Region - 7 (DA RFO 7), the Cebu City’s Department of Veterinary Medicine and Fisheries (DVMF) and the Agriculture Office have join hands to implement Oplan Kabukiran, a task force created to address the needs of farmers affected by the extreme weather in the city’s uplands.
RED Enriquez Exhorts Staff to Heed Secretary’s Call
“Focus our minds, deliver the results”.
This was the call of Agriculture Secretary Proceso Alcala in a message read for him by Undersecretary Antonio Fleta at the recent DA internal budget hearing in Palawan.
OIC Regional Executive Director Angel Enriquez shared the secretary’s message during last Monday’s flag ceremony to serve as guidepost of staff in the delivery of services to clientele. The Director exhorted staff to heed the Secretary’s call which provide direction in agricultural development efforts.
DA Secretary Distributed Calamity Rehab Projects in Remote Bohol BarangayDA Secretary Distributed Calamity Rehab Projects in Remote Bohol Barangay
Catigbian, Bohol - Agriculture Secretary Proceso Alcala distributed last week in remote Barangay Baang of the municipality of Catigbian - - 35 kilometers north of the capital city of Tagbilaran - - rehabilitation projects intended for earthquake and Typhoon Yolanda victims.
Curbing malnutrition in school
“Goodbye malnutrition”.
Simeon Ayuda Elementary School (SAES) in San Vicente, Liloan, Cebu will soon say goodbye on malnutrition with the decrease in their school’s prevalence rate. The Gulayan sa Paaralan (GPP) of the Department of Agriculture (DA) in coordination with Dept. of Education (DepEd) was a means to curb this long-overdue problem among schoolchildren.
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DA Projects
Freedom of Information
Video Documentation
Pulong-pulong and Turnover of Projects with Sec William Dar in Dumaguete City, Negros Oriental.
Special Area for Agricultural Development (SAAD) Program in the province of Siquijor.
Lazi National Agricultural School (LNAS) is the Gulayan sa Paaralan Program (GPP) Division Winner - Secondary Level (Open Field Category).
ASF Primer
Buko Summer Fest
DA-7 Provides Onion Hangers to Siquijor
Bohol Fish Market and TienDA...
What they say on the 3rd Regional Corn and Cassava Congress...
DA7 conducts skills training on the proper operations, maintenance and troubleshooting of compact corn mill...