Senator Loren Legarda urged the Department of Agriculture (DA) and the Bureau of Agriculture and Fisheries Resources (BFAR) to immediately implement measures, including the release of funds, to minimize the damage of the El Nino phenomenon to the fishery sector.
Loren sounded the call as she was alarmed by the report of fish kills and red [...]

PANGASINAN — Concerned of the depreciating quality of vegetable and fruit crops in Pangasinan, NPC-NP-LDP Vice-Presidential candidate and UN Regional Champion for International Strategy for Disaster Reduction Loren Legarda raised her calls for mitigating the rising El Nino phenomenon in the country. “Remember Ondoy and Pepeng? This, now, is the extreme opposite of those tragedies,” [...]

Senator Loren Legarda, chairman of the Senate committee on agriculture and food, said there is a need to fully support and develop the local vegetable industry to enhance the productivity of vegetable farmers and enable them to compete with their counterparts in developed countries.
At the same time, Loren lauded the efforts of vegetable growers in [...]

With the country in the midst of El Niño, Senator Loren Legarda hailed rice farmers as “our true silent heroes” for upholding the agricultural sector with a projected rice production of 17.4 million metric tons despite the El Niño dry spell.
“The nation and our people owe them a lot. We should bestow on our outstanding [...]

“Why should every situation for this administration be an emergency?” Nacionalista Party vice presidential candidate Loren Legarda said on Sunday in reaction to reports that some lawmakers are considering granting the President emergency powers to combat the effects of El Nino.
“Many of our so-called emergencies would not have caught the administration off guard if only [...]

“Slowly but surely the destruction of El Nino has been spreading throughout the land,” Nacionalista Party vice presidential candidate Loren Legarda noted on Sunday. “It’s time for this administration to start setting up measures and for the nexT one to follow up in their implementation to combat drought, power shortage, and the food crisis brought [...]

“If you can produce money for politics, you can produce money for food.”
This is the challenge posed by Nacionalista Party vice presidential candidate, Loren Legarda to Malacañang.
“What has this administration been in power for?’ Loren said on Saturday, shortly after her return to Manila from campaign sorties in the Visayas with running mate Manny Villar.
In [...]

Senator Loren Legarda who campaigns this week in the Panay provinces expressed her deep concern that unless urgent adaptation strategies are taken, El Nino will devastate the region’s agriculture, and food and water supply.
“Three provinces in the Visayan region have started to feel the effects of the El Nino phenomenon through below normal rainfall and [...]

Senator Loren Legarda, chair of Senate Agriculture and Food Committee, is happy about state universities and colleges which are helping the local government units (LGUs) implement their agriculture and fisheries programs.
“I am enjoining the Department of Agriculture—the lead agency in the implementation of the Agriculture and Fisheries Modernization Act of 1997 or AFMA—to constitute a [...]

Vice presidential candidate Senator Loren Legarda today called for justice and genuine agrarian reform for farmers, stressing that justice must be served to the victims and families of the Hacienda Luisita massacre.
“It has been more than five years since this bloody episode in our farmers’ struggle for genuine land reform. This is human rights violation [...]