September is memory written on the pages of our nation’s history. And because memory fades and history can be left to gather dust and grow dim on the shelves of time, the Philippines Graphic took to Literature to illuminate memory through the life...
A roadmap for agriculture & fisheries
Unlike some appointees, Agriculture Secretary William D. Dar practically breezed through the Commission on Appointments during his confirmation in December 2019.
Even opposition Senator Francis Pangilinan had good words for him. “He (Dar) served as DA Acting Secretary from...
The COVID-19 pandemic has showed that the threat of hunger is as real as the threat of the virus itself. In the parlance of food production, it is imperative that food is made available, affordable, and accessible at all times.
When the global economy...
Secretary William Dar: Up close
Clad in a long-sleeved, white barong and dark, formal trousers, Secretary William D. Dar marked his second year as Agriculture Secretary while the entire Metro Manila went on its second day under a Modified Enhanced Community Quarantine (MECQ).
Last year,...
Q&A with Agriculture Secretary William Dar
William Dollente Dar was only seven months in office as Agriculture Secretary when the COVID-19 pandemic hit the country in earnest and plunged the entire Luzon into Emergency Community Quarantine (ECQ) during the first month of the pandemic....
Seven weeks into the lockdown of Luzon with a bit less than two more weeks of Enhanced Community Quarantine (ECQ) to go and the world looked like it had come uncomfortably close to the fictive realm of several dystopian stories—yet the apocalypse in...