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Volume IX, No. 224
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Wednesday, February 26, 2020
Plaque of Recognition was awarded to TIMBERMINES MULTI-PURPOSE COOPERATIVE in recognition to its participation to the 2019 CDA GAWAD PARANGAL. TIMMULCO was an awardee as 2nd Most Outstanding Cooperative under the Large Cooperative Category under the leadership of General Manager Marilyn Fernando-Mananay given last September 26, 2019 in Pagadian City.
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3rd Philippine Environment Summit unfolds today in CDO By MIKE BAÑOS Editor at large
THE 3rd Philippine Environment Summit kicks off today at the Grand Caprice Restaurant and Convention Center with the theme “Paradigm (re) Shift: Heeding Nature”. This year’s Summit will run on February 26-28, 2020 and will showcase programs and projects that contribute to the country’s social and economic advancement while sustaining the environment. “Global warming and its flip side, climate change, has starkly revealed that our current paradigm for thinking and doing is unsustainable, and it is now undeniable that we must respect and return to nature’s principles if we are to continue the gains of cultural evolution and to
save the environment on which our lives depend,” said Dr. Angelina P. Galang, President of Green Convergence. The biennial Summit is unique to most forums on the environment that present the dire state of our planet in that it recognizes the valiant efforts of many Filipinos who are taking positive steps to counter the destruction. “Our Summit proclaims the good news,” Galang stressed. “We celebrate the Philippine environmental movement, and call for the Filipino people to unite in accelerating the drive towards sustainable development.” C on f i r me d pl e nar y speakers include Federico Lopez, CEO of the Energy Mayor William Calvez of Trento Agusan del Sur (left) and Agusan del SurProvincial Development Corporation Agrarian Reform Program Officer II Jamil Amatonding Jr. shovel sand into a capsule
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Agusan farmers freed from traders bondage
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By CHRIS V. PANGANIBAN Contributing Editor
SAN FRANCISCO, Agusan del Sur--- Soon, agrarian reform farmers in the four towns of this province will no longer sell their palay to middlemen and traders. This will be realized in April this year when a large scale dryer and multi-pass rice milling plant in Trento town is expected to be opened where the farmers themselves will already become rice suppliers initially to government institutions with huge demand of their produce. The P26.9 million plant, fully equipped with facilities including multi pass rice mill, recirculating meto mark the groundbreaking of the P26.9 large scale dryer and multi-pass rice milling chanical batch dryer, five plant. Contributed photo by DAR Agusan del Sur FB page.
See FARMERS, page 9