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Briefly 35% power share THE Philippines' proposed National Renewable Energy Program (NREP) 2020-2040 is setting a target of 35 percent share of renewable energy (RE) in the power generation mix by 2030 and 50 percent share by 2040. This was bared by Director Mylene C. Capongcol, OIC of the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Renewable Energy Management Bureau, who in a recent online presentation acknowledged that instead of growing, the share of RE in the power generation mix has actually declined. She noted that in 2008, the year the Renewable Energy Act was passed, the share of RE was about 34 percent. Now it is down to 21 percent, or 21,609 gigawatt-hours (GWh), out of a total 101,756 GWh of power generated.
Sokor agri market DAVAO DE ORO agricultural commodities could do well in South Korea market if producers bolster their research and development and ensure stable supply and delivery, a trade official said. “I challenge MSMEs (micro, small and medium enterprises) to look into R&D… Unless we have a strong R&D, we will continue to be dependent on foreign investors, and foreign investors are also more attracted to countries with strong R&D,” Jose Ma. S. Dinsay, commercial counsellor of the Philippine Trade and Investment CenterSeoul, said during the two-day hybrid Davao de Oro Investment Conference 2021 last week. He cited coconut and cacao as among the province’s products that can be developed for further export.
High corn tariff THE PROPOSED lowering of the tariff on yellow corn imports will be detrimental to both producers and consumers by ultimately increasing import dependency, because such a measure would force many domestic producers out, the corn industry said. Roger V. Navarro, president of the Philippine Maize Federation, Inc., said domestic producers will be “slaughtered” by the lower tariffs. “What is important is to motivate our farmers and to encourage their planting intentions so as to stabilize production. The worst thing to do is for the Department of Agriculture (DA) to announce imports,” Mr. Navarro said via mobile phone.
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OTABATO City – The Bangsamoro Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) has found a strong ally in the European Union (EU) in terms of strengthening the region’s governance through the five-year P1.5-billion Support to Bangsamoro Transition (SUBATRA) Program. “(The) SUBATRA helps boost the capacity of our regional government in crafting transitional policies and strengthening our parliament’s ability to exercise its legislative, oversight, and representation functions during this transition period,” BARMM Chief Minister Ahod “Murad” Ebrahim said in a statement Tuesday. The program, launched on Monday afternoon at the BARMM government center here, intends to help BARMM lay the foundation for lasting peace and development by strengthening its institutions' democratic governance capacities during the transition period. It is co-funded by the Spanish Agency for International Cooperation and Development that started in July 2020 and will run until June 2025. SUPPORT/PAGE 6
SPRING ONIONS. A farmer in Brgy. Lupiagan, Sumilao town in Bukidnon prepares newly harvested spring onions for delivery to buyers. mindanews photo by h . marcos c . mordeno
Colony of bats find sunctuary in Camiguin town amid pandemic By GERRY LEE GORIT, Reporter
BATS COLONY. A colony of bats have made two giant trees their home in Brgy. Poblacion, Catarman in Camiguin province. Both the provincial and municipal governments want to protect the bats and add make them a tourist attraction at the same time. photo by gerry lee gorit
CATARMAN, Camiguin -- A colony of bats, numbering about more than 500, was found by authorities in the middle of Barangay Poblacion of this town as local government officials are now putting up measures to save these flying mammals. Camiguin is known far and wide for its white beaches, resorts, islands, springs, waterfalls, dive sites, Cemetery, among others. Local executives believe that the presence of the more than 500 golden crown flying fox or “kabug” in Poblacion will become an added attraction in Camiguin. Its scientific name is Acerodon
Communal ARB lands still covered for individual titling By CHRIS V. PANGANIBAN, MindaNews
SAN FRANCISCO, Agusan del Sur — Communal lands that are still being maintained by cooperatives of Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries (ARBs) who are former farmworkers of an oil palm plantation company are still covered by individual titling of lands, a top official of the Provincial Agrarian Reform Office here clarified. Allan Mundala, Provincial Agrarian Reform Officer
I, explained during the orientation on the Support to Parcelization of Lands for Individual Titling (SPLIT) Project of the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) on Friday that several hectares of land planted to oil palm and other produce that splintered ARB groups still maintain will be raffled off for the survey of individual titles. He, however, clarified that these parcels of communal
lands up for individual titling to ARBs through the SPLIT Project should be agreed upon by their respective cooperatives or associations. The issue on communal lands that are still maintained by ARB groups came after an ARB stood up to disclose that there are still 63 hectares of land for SPLIT implementation which are managed by the group led by Emmanuel Sustino who used these parcels to avail LANDS/PAGE 6
jubatus and the environment department has classified as critically endangered. According to the locals, the colony of bats has started to settle on two tall trees around eight years ago. The trees stand near the barangay road in the center of the village where clusters of houses, public market, grocery stores and dining establishments are located. Don Quililan, forest technician at the Provincial Environment and Natural Resources Office (PENRO) in Camiguin, said the kind of bats BATS/PAGE 6
Agri thrives under Duterte administration ex-DA chief DAVAO City -- He may have had differences with some Cabinet members but Emmanuel Piñol, a former Secretar y of the Department of Agriculture (DA), remembers that the agriculture sector achieved its highest growth within the first year of the Duterte administration. “For the record, the Philippines achieved its highest growth in agriculture in over half a century in
2017, the first full year of the Duterte presidency, with 3.9 percent followed by a positive 1 percent growth in 2018,” Piñol shared in a public post on Saturday. He noted that the country posted its highest rice harvest in history in 2017 with 19.28 million metric tons (MT), followed by 19.05 MT in 2018. The fisheries sector, he added, also posted its first AGRI/PAGE 6
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