A program under the Department of Labor and Employment has gathered parents of child laborers in Negros Oriental to promote reforestation in the province.
With the sudden inflation to onion prices, the Philippines' former Agriculture chief encouraged farmers from Central Mindanao to bring back onion farming.
To boost the population of freshwater prawns in the province, the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources released post-larvae prawns in the Ilocos region.