Agriculture
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Oriental Mindoro farmers receive P60M in agricultural assistance
Farmers and fisherfolk in Oriental Mindoro have received nearly P60 million in government support to modernize agriculture and improve people’s income in the province. Some 326 members of farmers’ cooperatives and fisherfolk associations benefited from…
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Indigenous Mangyan Farmers Gain Direct Access to National Rice Market Through Government Partnership
Indigenous farmers in Occidental Mindoro have gained direct access to the national rice market through a new government partnership aimed at ensuring fairer prices. The Department of Agriculture (DA) and the National Food Authority (NFA)…
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Hundreds of Mindoro Farmers Finally Receive Long-Awaited Land Titles After Decades of Waiting
Farmers in Occidental Mindoro province have received land ownership documents and had debts worth millions of pesos cancelled under government reforms. More than 2,000 farmers in Occidental Mindoro on Monday have been given formal land…
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Sablayan LGU signs P2.7M coconut planting deal as PH coco exports skyrocket
A municipality in Mindoro island has signed a government partnership to plant thousands of coconut trees, joining a national drive to revitalize an industry battered by decades of decline but now buoyed by soaring global…
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Mindoro farmers to receive P260-M aid after triple typhoon onslaught
More than 31,000 farmers in Mindoro and surrounding provinces are set to receive P260 million pesos in emergency assistance after three successive typhoons devastated rice fields and croplands in southwestern Luzon, officials said Friday. The…
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Oriental Mindoro engineer wins national design award for rice planting innovation
An engineer from Oriental Mindoro has won the Outstanding Industrial Design award at the 2025 National Invention Contest and Exhibits for developing a device that eases the burden of rice planting for Filipino farmers. Delfin…
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Oriental Mindoro Expands Access to Subsidized Rice
Vulnerable sectors in Oriental Mindoro are gaining improved access to affordable rice with the Benteng Bigas Meron (BBM) Na program now selling subsidized rice at 20 pesos per kilogram in several locations in the province.…
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Agriculture in Crisis: Mindoro Farmers Call on PBBM for Immediate Intervention
Farmers from Occidental Mindoro have submitted a formal manifesto to President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. and top agriculture officials, demanding urgent government intervention to address what they describe as a deepening crisis in the country’s…
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Oriental Mindoro Wins Top RCEF Award Despite Rice Production Decline
Oriental Mindoro received the Most Outstanding Province award for Luzon in the large-scale category during the National Assembly of Provincial Agriculture Offices on Rice Competitiveness Enhancement Fund (RCEF) implementation Friday, despite facing production decline in…
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P207-M Worth of Agricultural Machinery Distributed in Occidental Mindoro
The Department of Agriculture (DA) has turned over 94 units of modern agricultural machinery valued at P207.47 million to farmers’ cooperatives in Occidental Mindoro province on Friday, August 29, 2025. The equipment handover ceremony in…
Founder’S Profile
Romel “Direk” Ferriol Bernardo
Bernardo Creative Ventures, Inc., the company behind Direk Fuels, Oriental Mindoro’s homegrown gas station chain, and Direk Builders, which rents out heavy equipment, is expanding its portfolio by venturing into online media and content production.
The company’s entry into news media is not surprising, as its founder and CEO, Romel “Direk” Bernardo, was a television writer, producer, and director for over 15 years. From 2002 to 2007, he served as a researcher, writer, and producer for GMA-7’s top-rating show Imbestigador before becoming the executive producer for ABS-CBN’s award-winning documentary program, The Correspondents.
