Welcome to the new and improved PADCC website! Through this website, we would like to impart to you the relevant and up-to-date information about about the institution, thrust, current programs, projects and activities. The new PADCC website consists of features that are interactive, innovative and participatory. The layout of the website offers variety of components which you may find useful especially in facilitating services in the agribusiness sector. The new website is the product of regular consultation and consolidated ideas. Major programming and space was allotted to the three pages: NCI, available lands and agricultural commodities. Photo/news releases and some downloadable materials are at the bottom page. The Available Lands page is programmed to show all the available lands in the country specific to per region, province and municipality. The Agricultural Commodities page is designed so as visitors can simply type in the crops they want to search. One key addition of the website is the PADCC forum at the bottom right part of the page. This interactive part is included to generate web traffic and responses from visitors. We at PADCC are committed in providing you the best services for your desired enterprise and assisting you on your project development efforts. The website was made more interactive and user friendly for visitors like you to explore, as a testament of our in support in the Department of Agriculture’s undertaking to carry out our agricultural missions, strengthen our relations, and escalate our global economic status. We take pride that through this website, we are reaching to more Filipinos around the globe. We feel honored and fulfilled that through this, we can be more aggressive in reaching our goal of becoming more globally competitive. To all visitors of this website, I urge you to make use of the different features embedded in all parts of the page productively. Again, welcome to the PADCC website! MARRIZ B. AGBON President