The National Food Authority in Negros Occidental has allocated P26 million to start its sugar procurement operations this week in line with President Arroyo's order for NFA to intervene to provide consumers access to reasonably priced sugar, its provincial manager Gil Ibarra said yesterday.

The NFA will procure "B-2" sugar allocated by the Sugar Regulatory Administration at a price of P950 per LKG starting this week until the end of March, he said.

B2 represents one half percent of the country's sugar production.

IT Team braces for entry
of third call center

American company Focus Communications will open its call center in Bacolod City within the year, its first in the Philippines, Councilor Jocelle Batapa-Sigue, chairperson of the Bacolod IT Focus Team, said yesterday.

Batapa-Sigue said the Ogden, Utah-based company does not have a registered business name in the Philippines yet but it is already preparing to list-up with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

It will have a start-up operations of 250 seats and will occupy the Ceferina Building at Lacson Street that will be turned into Monfort IT Centre.

SRA to hold sugar
farm mng't training

The Sugar Regulatory Administration will conduct a Sugarcane Farm Management Training for 50 selected members of Negros Women for Tomorrow Foundation Inc. on March 20 to 22 at the Balay OPSI at SRA La Granja in La Carlota City, a press release from SRA said.

The training, which is under the Outreach Program for the Sugar Industry, will be attended by micro crop personnel and agrarian reform beneficiaries, it said.

SRA Administrator James Ledesma will be the guest speaker while the technical staff of the Research and Extension Services Department and the Industrial Research and Development Office of the SRA regional office will be the resource persons, the press release said.

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