Mindanao Daily (March 7, 2018)

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Farmers in Region 10 want govt to dismantle rice ‘cartel’ By CRIS DIAZ Executive Editor

CAGAYAN de Oro City-Rice farmers in Northern Mindanao dare the national government to dismantle the “cartelization” of rice supply in the country to stabilize the prices of the prime commodity. Irene o Udarb e, t he Regional Secretary of the Kilusang Mabubukid sa Pilipinas (KMP), said that the prices of rice have gone up by more than P40 per kilo in the market today – in contrast to the usual P30 per kilo a week ago. The KMP, toget her with other militant groups in Northern Mindanao, trooped to the regional office of the National Food Authority (NFA) here Monday to protest the spiraling prices of rice in the local market. Udarbe said that one of the culprits of the risNO CATCH. A fisherman in Barangay Union, Dapa town in Siargao Island, Surigao del Norte returns home on Sat- ing prices of the rice in urday, March 3, 2018, with no catch of mud crab. Overfishing, unsustainable fishing that includes using dynamite the local market is that remains unabated in this village. MindaNews photo by Roel N. Catoto its importation is now be-

USTP to re-bid Education complex By MARK FRANCISCO Correspondent

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Murad: Senate’s proposed BBL is ‘generally acceptable

CAGAYAN de Oro City-Renovation of the College of Technology building is in full swing and the drains around the 7.3-hectare main campus of University of Science and Technology of the Philippines (USTP) are being updated. Yet the fate of the unfinished eight-storey Student Center and Education Complex remains in limbo. According to USTP board secretary Clint Django PaSenator Juan Miguel Zubiri delivers his sponsorship cana in a press conference MILF chair Al Haj Murad Ebrahim in Camp Darapanan, speech on Senate Bill No. 1717 or the Bangsamoro Baover the weekend, sic Law during the Senate plenary session, Wednesday, Sultan Kudarat, Maguindanao. See complex, page 11

ing controlled by big time private businessmen. Udarbe was referring to the “Minimum Access Volume” (MAV), a group of big time private rice traders, authorized by the government to import rice. “The MAV is expected to deliver 350,000 metric tons of imported rice any time in February or March this year, but whether the supply could pull the prices of the rice in the market remain to be seen,” Udarbe told the Manila Times. He said that the government should be responsible in the importation of rice so that its prices could be effectively controlled in contrast to the private importers who have the liberty to dictate the prices of rice in the local market. “Allowing the big time private rice importers to control the supplies and prices of rice in the market simply means ‘cartelization’ of the prime commodity,”

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By Carolyn O. Arguillas MindaNews

THE chair of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) on Monday said Senate Bill 1717, the substitute bill to the four versions of the Bangsamoro Basic Law (BBL) earlier filed, is “generally acceptable” to them. “Generally, SB 1717 is already acceptable to the MILF… it is acceptable to us,” Murad told ANC’s Early Edition host Christian Esguerra. See proposed, page 11

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