Enrique Rojas, president of the National Federation of Sugarcane Planters Inc., in a press statement yesterday called on the Sugar Regulatory Administration to scrap the allocation of 5 percent for “D” or world market sugar as it can cause huge losses for sugar producers, more than 80 percent of which are marginal farmers.

The NFSP, in a resolution passed during its special general membership and board meeting at its main office on November 10, the group asked SRA to allocate the 5 percent sugar production to “C” or Reserve, convertible into “B” or Domestic as the necessity warrants in the future.

SRA Sugar Order No. 1-A dated Oct. 17, 2007 revised the percentage allocation of all sugar produced beginning week ending Oct. 21, 2007 as follows: 6 percent, “A” or US Quota; 89 percent, “B” or Domestic; and 5 percent, “D” or World Market.

Capitol gets
P1.2M from BSWM-DA

The Bureau of Soils and Water Management of the Department of Agriculture released a check for P1.237 million to Negros Occidental through Gov. Joseph Marañon for the establishment of two organic fertilizer projects in the province.

The amount, turned over by Senior Agriculturist Isabel Nasis in simple rites at the Capitol yesterday, will be used for the Modified Rapid Composting Technology Production Farms and the Small-Scale Organic and Microbial Fertilizer Production Plant.

Investment opportunities
in tourism zones bared

Investment opportunities in tourism economic zones were presented by an official of the Philippine Economic Zone Authority at the Western Visayas Tourism Assembly at the Business Inn in Bacolod City yesterday.

Emmanuel Cortero, head of the PEZA Ecozone Development Department, said areas of investments can be in tourism ecozone, medical tourism ecozone and retirement ecozone.

Cortero said before PEZA can approve an application for an ecozone, a developer or operator must have an endorsement from the Deparment of Tourism (for tourism ecozone), DOT and Department of Health (for medical tourism zone) and Philippine Retirement Authority, (for retirement ecozone).

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