DA to boost family farms, digital agri

The Department of Agriculture (DA) will harness the potential of family farms and promote digital or precision agriculture under the new normal to meet its twin objectives of reducing poverty and achieving food security, according to its chief.

“It is important that we continuously empower vulnerable groups — smallholder farmers, fisherfolk, rural women, the youth and farm families in general — by providing them the needed technical, marketing and financial support,” Agriculture Secretary William Dar said during the recent virtual meeting of the 35th United Nations› (UN) Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Regional Conference for Asia and the Pacific (APRC35), hosted by Bhutan.