THE Department of Agriculture (DA) is pushing to export more farm and fishery products to Canada, and expand areas of agricultural cooperation and partnership with the North American country.

"We wish to improve our balance of trade with Canada in succeeding years by selling more Filipino products like coconut water, virgin coconut oil or VCO, pineapples, mangoes and melons," Agriculture Secretary William Dar said during the recent virtual courtesy call of new Canadian Ambassador to the Philippines Peter MacArthur.

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