A resolution urging the Local Markets Committee and the Socio-Economic Enterprises headed by City Administrator Roger Balo to study the establishment of a "barter trade center" in Bacolod City has been proposed by Councilor Alex Paglumotan.

Paglumotan, chairman of the Committee on Markets and Slaughterhouse, said he has noticed that the sidewalks along commercial areas in the city are flooded with items such as DVD, VCD tapes, and cellphone paraphernalia, as well as relief goods and imported items from China.

Silk breeding station in
Bago inaugurated

The silkworm breeding station in OISCA-Bago Training Center was inaugurated yesterday with Congressman Koichi Tani of Japan and Bago City Mayor Ramon Torres as guests.

The breeding station aims to produce high quality of silk, not only for the local market, but also for export to countries like India and Thailand, training coordinator Thelma Watanabe said. At present, about 80 percent of the silk produced by OISCA (Organization for Industrial, Spiritual and Cultural Advancement) in Negros is exported to Panay to feed its traditional hand woven industry.

The silk reeling factory at the Bago Training Center is capable of producing 12 tons of reeled silk per year.

Rojas elected anew
as NFSP president

Negrense sugar planter Enrique Rojas was elected anew as president of the National Federation of Sugarcane Planters during the NFSP's general membership assembly and election at the Casino Español in Cebu City recently, a press release from NFSP said.

Rojas, whose nomination was unopposed, will again serve for the next three years as head of the first national federation of sugarcane planters association in the country formed in 1930.

He first became president in 2000, taking over after Bacolod Rep. Romeo Guanzon passed away.

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