In line with the Department of Agriculture’s commitment to ensuring the integrity of organic agriculture practices, the DA-BAFS Monitoring Team, supported by the DA-Regional Field Office VII Regulatory Division, conducted a compliance monitoring activity on March 20, 2025. This monitoring activity aimed to verify the continued compliance of BAFS-registered organic input producers to applicable Philippine National Standards and technical regulations relevant to organic agriculture.#OAmonitoring#OAregistration#BAFSonthemove#DABAFS  Monitoring of Registered Organic Input in Cebu. March 27, 2025 Supervised Certification Activity was Facilitated for a PGS group in Camarines Norte. March 27, 2025 Monitoring of Certified Core PGS Farmer-Members March 25, 2025 Raising the Bar for Philippine Honey with the Philippine National Standards (PNS) on Honey — Product Standard — Specifications (PNS/BAFS 185:2022) March 25, 2025 Surveillance Assessment of PGS Group for Accreditation as Organic Certifying Body March 20, 2025 DA-BAFS Standards Research Division (SRD) and Standards Development Division (SDD) conducted in-person interviews, coordinated with DA-Regional Field Offices in Central Luzon and SOCCSKSARGEN. March 20, 2025 Field Compliance Assessment of Ongoing Efficacy Trials March 19, 2025 Preinspection to Participatory Guarantee System (PGS) Core Farmer-Members March 18, 2025 Other Post

A supervised certification activity was facilitated for a PGS group in Camarines Norte from March 11 to 14, 2025, by the DA-BAFS Compliance Assistance Team, in partnership with DA-RFO V and DA-ATI RTC V. The aim of the activity was to offer technical assistance to the accredited PGS group to ensure that their organic certification process was done in full compliance with their Manual of Operations (MOO). A core element of this activity was the supervised peer review process, meant to assist peer reviewers in ascertaining compliance by applicant farmer members with the group’s Internal Standards (IS).#OAtechnicalassistance#BAFS#BAFSonthemove#PGSforOA  Supervised Certification Activity was Facilitated for a PGS group in Camarines Norte. March 28, 2025 Monitoring of Certified Core PGS Farmer-Members March 25, 2025 Raising the Bar for Philippine Honey with the Philippine National Standards (PNS) on Honey — Product Standard — Specifications (PNS/BAFS 185:2022) March 25, 2025 Surveillance Assessment of PGS Group for Accreditation as Organic Certifying Body March 20, 2025 DA-BAFS Standards Research Division (SRD) and Standards Development Division (SDD) conducted in-person interviews, coordinated with DA-Regional Field Offices in Central Luzon and SOCCSKSARGEN. March 20, 2025 Field Compliance Assessment of Ongoing Efficacy Trials March 19, 2025 Preinspection to Participatory Guarantee System (PGS) Core Farmer-Members March 18, 2025 New Employee Oreintation and Reoreintation March 14, 2025 Other Post

A monitoring activity from March 11 to 14, 2025, was conducted by the DA-BAFS Organic Agriculture Division and DA-Regional Field Office Region I Regulatory Division Monitoring Team to target certified core PGS group farmer-members in Pangasinan. The activity aimed to ensure continued compliance of these farmer-members with the Philippine National Standard applicable to organic agriculture and to ensure compliance with the execution of corrective action plans to address findings of previous inspections. The Pangasinan Provincial Agriculture Office and Mangatarem Municipal Agriculture Office offered technical support in the monitoring activity. #OAmonitoring #OrganicAgriculture #PGSforOA #BAFSonthemove #DABAFS  Monitoring of Certified Core PGS Farmer-Members March 25, 2025 Raising the Bar for Philippine Honey with the Philippine National Standards (PNS) on Honey — Product Standard — Specifications (PNS/BAFS 185:2022) March 25, 2025 Surveillance Assessment of PGS Group for Accreditation as Organic Certifying Body March 20, 2025 DA-BAFS Standards Research Division (SRD) and Standards Development Division (SDD) conducted in-person interviews, coordinated with DA-Regional Field Offices in Central Luzon and SOCCSKSARGEN. March 20, 2025 Field Compliance Assessment of Ongoing Efficacy Trials March 19, 2025 Preinspection to Participatory Guarantee System (PGS) Core Farmer-Members March 18, 2025 New Employee Oreintation and Reoreintation March 14, 2025 Surviellance Assessment of PGS Group for Accreditation as Organic Certifying Body March 13, 2025 Other Post