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February 22, 2016
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Take pro-people stand vs. large-scale mining PRESIDENTIAL candidates need to take a propeople stance and oppose large-scale mining in the countr y, said research group IBON. They need to stand against the country’s mining liberalization policy, which has resulted in destruction, poverty and attacks on mining-affected areas and done little for the economy, the group said. The Chamber of Mines of the Philippines recently expressed hopes for a mining rebound in 2016 due See stand, page A13
Where have all the flowers of Batasan gone? BATASAN, Makilala, North Cotabato--Where have all the flowers of this village gone? The drought has not spared the anthuriums planted under coconut, coffee or cacao trees, under the shade of bananas, and fruit trees such as lanzones and durian. Unlike in October, there were no residents coming down the mountain road on a tractor, on horseback or on foot with anthuriums on this Tuesday morning, no thick bunch of the newlyharvested flowers in their hands or on top of their heads, no bukag (large basket) of those red, white and pink cutflowers on their heads or shoulders. The buying station that
Supported of presidential candidates gather outside the Capitol a University as a show of support to their candidates who battled it out in the first of a series of Presidential Debates 2016, held Sunday Feb 21. 2016, Cagayan de ORO City. PHOTO BY GERRY LEE GORIT
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M’lang airport’s first use: to fly a plane seeding clouds By Carolyn O. Arguillas of MindaNews
KIDAPAWAN City--The M’lang airport in North Cotabato is now operational, but only for cloud seeding operations. The provincial government of North Cotabato on Wednesday began its daily cloud seeding operations from the M’lang airport to “recharge our watershed” and avert further crop losses brought about by the drought, Engr. Eliseo
Magliwan, provincial agriculturist, said. The province’s 17 towns and Kidapawan City have been declared under a state of calamity Magliwan told MindaNews that P3.4 million, sourced from the provincial government’s calamity fund, has been allocated for the 60-hour contract for cloud seeding. The Provincial Agriculturist’s Office in its report dated February 5 said
P402.74 million worth of crops – rice, corn, oil palm, coconut, rubber, cacao and coffee — have been damaged due to the drought. Magliwan said the contract for cloud seeding is for a minimum of one hour per day and maximum of three hours “depending on the presence of seedable clouds,” for a total flying time of 60 hours. He said it is also possible that there will be no sortie for a day if there
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