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N. Mindanao posts higher X Briefly palay, corn outputs in Q3
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Rubber industry BUTUAN City -- With the aim to make Caraga become one of the top 4 producing regions of quality natural rubber in the country, the Caraga rubber industry cluster members met to validate, harmonize and localize the national rubber plans. The meeting-workshop, which was conducted recently, was attended by the Board of Directors of the Caraga Rubber Industry Federation, Inc. (CRIFI) and support agencies such the departments of agriculture (DA), environment and natural resources (DENR), agrarian reform (DAR), trade and industry (DTI), the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) and local government units of Butuan City and Prosperidad, Agusan del Sur. DTI Agusan del Sur Provincial Director Lolita I. Dorado presented the Philippine Rubber Industry Updates, while the line agencies took turns in giving their reports and accomplishments in relation to their efforts in the rubber industry development. The group then reviewed the Philippine Rubber Value Chain Map, Constraints and Opportunities as well as the 2014-2016 Industry Cluster Action Plan.
By GRACE BEBER, Reporter
UFFICIENT rainfalls and irrigation systems buoyed up palay production in Northern Mindanao during the critical third quarter of this year as compared to the production in the same quarter in 2012.
ROUND-SHAPED FRUITS. Assorted fruits are sold at the Panabo City public market. Round-shaped fruits are usually in demand as the eve of New Year draws near. mindanews photo by keith bacongco
With total output reaching 180,481 metric tons this year, the region posted 19% improvement with last year’s production of only 151,278 metric tons, Engr. Cecilio Y. Clarete, chief economic development specialist of the Development Research Division of National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) in the region said. Clarete said the positive performance was attributable to the good production in
the provinces of Bukidnon, Camiguin, Lanao del Norte and Misamis Occidental. The 79 percent production increase in Lanao del Norte was due to sufficient rainfall which benefited the province’s rainfed/upland production areas as well as to the movement of harvest to the third quarter, Clarete said. He further said that the completion of the repair of irrigation canals also contributed to the 35 percent outputs/PAGE 7
Solar power project FEATURE STORY lights up Christmas Barangay Ban-ao: Model of disaster recon, rehab in Bagumbayan By BONG D. FABE Correspondent
Tolerant rice
By MindaNews
DAVAO del Norte – Rice paddies in the province of Davao del Norte will soon be teeming with climate change-ready rice varieties that can survive prolonged flooding. Governor Rodolfo del Rosario directed Provincial Agriculturist Dr. Anastacia Notarte to develop and look for flood-tolerant rice varieties to be planted in farms that experience periodic inundation. “I have instructed Dr. Notarte to find a rice variety that could withstand one week or so of flooding,” he revealed, to the delight of farmers attending the recent first Provincial Rice Congress at the Bulwagan ng Lalawigan. The governor said the provincial government is bent on equipping the agriculture sector combat the worsening weather condition brought about by the climate change crisis.
GENERAL Santos City — Christmas promises to be merrier than ever for at least 103 households in a remote village in Bagumbayan town in Sultan Kudarat province with the recent completion of a government-funded solar home system project in the area. Gemma Rivera, Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Region 12 director, said Tuesday the solar home system is now lighting up households of Barangay Kanulay, which is about 30 kilometers away from the town proper of Bagumbayan. “This solar home system project is an answer to the most pressing need of Kanulay residents who have longed for many years to have their homes lighted up, especially during the Yuletide season,” power/PAGE 7
BAN-AO, Baganga, Davao Oriental -- The sound of children playing on the white sandy beach echoed in the neighborhood as her everpresent smile lighted up her face while busy attending to the customers of her small sari-sari (variety) store, while a few meters away another mother was busy preparing her yard for planting as she waited for her rice to cook. It was past five o’clock in the afternoon on December 3, a day short of the first anniversar y of typhoon Pablo that devastated this village, and the excitement for the next day’s program feature/PAGE 7
Desiree “Diding” Ulang cleaning her yard off grass to prepare it for planting rootcrops. photo by bong d. fabe
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