Two short-term skill-upgrading programs aimed at boosting the tourism industry of Negros Occidental were launched at the Sugarland Hotel in Bacolod City yesterday.

La Consolacion College-Bacolod and VMA Global College launched their Asian Culinary Skills Enhancement and Kitchen Management, and Housekeeping Training Management programs, respectively.

The launching was made in cooperation with the German Technical Cooperation-Small and Medium Enterprise Development for Sustainable Employment Program.

San Enrique farmers' coop
avails of buy-back program

The San Enrique Multipurpose Cooperative Inc. of San Enrique Negros Occidental is the first farmers cooperative in the province to avail of the National Food Authority's Farmers Option to buy back program, a press release from the NFA said yesterday.

NFA provincial manager Gil Ibarra said that, under the program, the farmers' cooperative organization has the option to buy back the same volume of palay it delivered to NFA within a period of six months.

The program aims to develop the farmers entrepreneurial capability and encourage their involvement in food security and stabilization, Ibarra said in the same press release.

BFAR gives aid to
fishpond owners

Small fishpond owners in Negros Occidental will receive aid from the Bureau of Fishery an Aquatic Resources in the form of feeds in a bid to boost milkfish production in the country, a press release from the BFAR said

Provincial BFAR chief Emmanuel Lobredo said each fishpond owner identified by the Office of the Provincial Agriculturist, will be entitled to get 30,000 worth of feeds per hectare. The program is only limited to two hectares per pond owner, Lobredo said.

He said the Modified Extensive Milk Fish Culture program of the Department of Agriculture adopts a 'rollover scheme' where beneficiaries return the amount lent to them so that other fish farmers can also avail of the program.

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