{"id":11543,"date":"2017-01-02T09:43:23","date_gmt":"2017-01-02T01:43:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/?p=11543"},"modified":"2016-12-29T09:47:05","modified_gmt":"2016-12-29T01:47:05","slug":"department-of-agriculture-targets-p900-m-equipment-loan-from-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/2017\/01\/02\/department-of-agriculture-targets-p900-m-equipment-loan-from-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"Department of Agriculture targets P900-M equipment loan from Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a report published by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.philstar.com\/business\/2016\/12\/26\/1656767\/da-eyes-p900-m-equipment-loan-japan\">Philippine Star<\/a>, the Department of Agriculture targets to modernize the sector to reduce post-harvest losses and ensure increased productivity with the help of a P900-million equipment loan from the Japanese government.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11544\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/12\/agri.jpg\" alt=\"agri\" width=\"812\" height=\"606\" srcset=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/12\/agri.jpg 812w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/12\/agri-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/12\/agri-768x573.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 812px) 100vw, 812px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>Image grabbed from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SecMannyPinol\/photos\/pcb.1822172524672355\/1822172258005715\/?type=3&amp;theater\">Manny Pi\u00f1ol<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>According to Agriculture Secretary Emmanuel Pi\u00f1ol, they are looking into possible loan availment from the Japanese government to modernize Philippine agriculture.<\/p>\n<p>He added that \u201cwe are drafting the parameters and details that would involve mechanization, improvement\u00a0of technology and logistics.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>By January, Pi\u00f1ol hopes to have President Duterte and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe sign the memorandum of agreement.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.mb.com.ph\/2016\/12\/28\/japans-abe-to-visit-manila-davao-next-month\/\">Manila Bulletin<\/a> reported that Prime Minister Abe is set to visit Manila and Davao on January 12, 2016 to January 13, 2016.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.philstar.com\/business\/2016\/12\/26\/1656767\/da-eyes-p900-m-equipment-loan-japan\">Philippine Star<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.mb.com.ph\/2016\/12\/28\/japans-abe-to-visit-manila-davao-next-month\/\">Manila Bulletin<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Department of Agriculture targets to modernize the sector to reduce post-harvest losses and ensure increased productivity with the help of a P900-million equipment loan from the Japanese government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":11544,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1777,1779,1778],"class_list":["post-11543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-current-events","tag-department-of-agriculture","tag-japanese-prime-minister-shinzo-abe","tag-p900-million-equipment-loan"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/12\/agri.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11543"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11545,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11543\/revisions\/11545"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}