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The Department of Agriculture is the executive department of the Philippine government responsible for the promotion of agricultural and fisheries development and growth. It has its headquarters at Elliptical Road corner Visayas Avenue, Diliman, Quezon City.
This sub-project aims to organize genealogical data on people who has been working or had worked at the Department of Agriculture and its predecessors. Find more at the master project page, Philippines Portal.
Ministers of Agriculture, Industry and Commerce
- José Alejandrino | June 23, 1898 - January 21, 1899
The department was clustered under the Ministry of Welfare from January to May 1899.
- Gracio P. Gonzaga | January 21, 1899 - May 7, 1899
- León María Leogardo Guerrero | May 7, 1899 - November 13, 1899
The department was demoted to a bureau, the Bureau of Agriculture, subordinate to the Department of the Interior from 1902 to 1910, then under the Department of Public Instruction from 1910 to 1917.
Secretaries of Agriculture and Natural Resources
- Galicano Apacible | 1917 - 1921
- Rafael Corpus | 1921 - 1923
- Silverio Apóstol | 1923 - 1928
- Rafael Alunan | 1928 - 1932
Secretaries of Agriculture and Commerce
- Rafael Alunan | 1932
- Vicente Singson Encarnación | 1933 - 1934
- Eulogio Rodríguez Sr. | July 26, 1934 - 1938
- Benigno Aquino Sr. | 1938 - 1941
- Rafael Alunan | 1941
Secretaries of Finance, Agriculture and Commerce
- José Abad Santos | December 26, 1941 - March 26, 1942
- Andrés Soriano | March 26, 1942 - July 31, 1944
- Manuel Nieto | August 8, 1944 - February 27, 1945
Commissioner of Agriculture and Commerce
- Rafael Alunan | January 23, 1942 - October 14, 1943
Minister of Agriculture and Commerce
- Rafael Alunan | October 14, 1943 - March 20, 1945
Secretary of Justice, Agriculture and Commerce
- Delfín Jaranilla | February 27, 1945 - July 12, 1945
Secretaries of Agriculture and Commerce
- Vicente Singson Encarnación | July 12, 1945 - May 28, 1946
- Mariano Garchitorena | May 28, 1946 - October 4, 1947
Secretaries of Agriculture and Natural Resources
- Mariano Garchitorena | October 4, 1947 - September 1, 1948
- Placido Lizares Mapa | September 21, 1948 - December 30, 1949
- Fernando Hofileña Lopez | December 30, 1949 - December 30, 1953
- Salvador Araneta | March 10, 1954 - 1955
- Juan Rodríguez | April 12, 1956 - March 3, 1960
- César Fortich | March 3, 1960 - September 1961
- José Corteza Locsín | September 1961 - 1962
- Benjamin Gozon | 1962 - 1963
- José Yusi Feliciano | 1963 - 1965
- Fernando Hofileña Lopez | December 30, 1965 - 1971
- Bong Tanco | 1971 - May 17, 1974
Secretary of Agriculture
- Bong Tanco | May 17, 1974 - June 2, 1978
Minister of Agriculture
- Bong Tanco | June 2, 1978 - June 30, 1984
Ministers of Agriculture and Food
- Sonny Escudero | June 30, 1984 - March 25, 1986
- Ramon Mitra Jr. | March 25, 1986 - January 30, 1987
Secretaries of Agriculture
- Ramon Mitra Jr. | January 30, 1987 - March 9, 1987
- Carlos Dominguez III | March 9, 1987 - December 31, 1989
- Senen Bacani | January 3, 1990 - June 30, 1992
- Roberto Sebastian | June 30, 1992 - January 31, 1996
- Sonny Escudero | February 1, 1996 - June 30, 1998
- William Dollente Dar (acting) | June 30, 1998 - May 24, 1999
- Edgardo Angara | May 25, 1999 - January 6, 2001
- Domingo Flores Panganiban | January 8, 2001 - March 31, 2001
- Leonardo Montemayor | March 31, 2001 - December 8, 2002
- Luis Lorenzo Jr. | December 9, 2002 - August 15, 2004
- Arthur Yap | August 23, 2004 - June 30, 2005
- Domingo Flores Panganiban | July 16, 2005 - October 25, 2006
- Arthur Yap | October 26, 2006 - February 24, 2010
- Bernie Fondevilla | March 8, 2010 - June 30, 2010, acting from March 1, 2010 - March 8, 2010
- Proceso Alcala | June 30, 2010 - June 30, 2016
- Manny Piñol | June 30, 2016 - August 5, 2019
- William Dollente Dar | August 5, 2019 - June 30, 2022
- Bongbong Marcos | June 30, 2022 - November 3, 2023
- Francisco Tiu Laurel Jr. | November 3, 2023 - Present
Resources
- "Department of Agriculture (Philippines)" Wikipedia.
- "Secretary of Agriculture (Philippines)" Wikipedia.
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