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Syngenta was founded in 2000 by the merger of the agrichemical businesses of Novartis and AstraZeneca, and acquired by China National Chemical Corporation (ChemChina) in 2017. [3] In 2020, the Syngenta Group was formed, bringing together Syngenta Crop Protection and Syngenta Seeds, Adama , and the agricultural business of Sinochem , now called ...
LT Group, Inc. (LTG) is a Philippine publicly listed holding company headquartered in Bonifacio Global City, Taguig. It was founded in 1937 by Chinese Filipino business tycoon Lucio Tan . LT Group, Inc. is majority-owned by Tangent Holdings Corporation, its ultimate parent company (also controlled by Tan).
On January 25, 2024, Francisco Tiu Laurel Jr. designated former National Food Authority official Roger Navarro as DA undersecretary for operations, as acting undersecretary for rice industry development, replacing Leocadio Sebastian. Navarro was also named officer-in-charge (OIC) of the Office of the National Project Director, Philippine Rural ...
Syngenta Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture [14] Crawford Fund; ACIAR supports the following initiatives through global research collaborations: CultiAF; Food Loss Research Program; Demand-led breeding; The head office for ACIAR is located at ACIAR House in Canberra, Australian Capital Territory.
It was a priority project of then Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos to revolutionize the agricultural sector of the country, and establish a food consolidation centre. [8] By the power a Presidential decree issued in January 1967 ( 1967-01 ) , it took about more than a year to establish what was called the Greater Manila Terminal Food ...
In 1972–1973, Philippines was beset by rice production shortfalls resulting from the series of typhoons and floods and fertilizer shortages spawned by the oil crisis.The resulting fourfold drop in rice production prompted the government to directly intervene in the operations of the fertilizer industry through the issuance of Presidential Decree (P.D.)
The Philippine Coconut Authority (Filipino: Pangasiwaan sa Niyog ng Pilipinas, [1] abbreviated as PCA or PHILCOA) is an agency of the Philippine government under the Department of Agriculture (from 2014 to 2018, under the Office of the President of the Philippines and the Office of the Cabinet Secretary) responsible for developing the coconut and other palm oil industry to its full potential ...
As a subsidiary of the National Grains Authority (NGA) in 1980, BPRE's powers and functions were expanded through LOI 1142 to include other agricultural commodities in line with the conversion of NGA to the National Food Authority (NFA). In 1986, BPRE became an attached agency of the Department of Agriculture through Executive Order 116.