Another Sugar Forum will be held on April 11, at 4 p.m. at L’ Fisher Hotel, convenor Rafael Golez said yesterday.

Sugar Regulatory Administration head Rafael Coscolluela will present the projected production for crop year 2007-2008 and give a report on sugar monitoring and the anti-smuggling task force.

Coscolluela and the Sugar Board will also hold a dialog with the stakeholders on their concerns and expectations on the present and next crop season.

Agriculturists in
Neg.Occ.taught to detect GMOs

Agriculturists from various local government units, line agencies and non-government organizations in Negros Occidental were introduced to genetically-modified organisms detection in a training organized by the Negros Island Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Development Foundation and the Office of the Provincial Agriculturist at the Governor’s Hall of the Provincial Capitol yesterday.

The skills sharing, facilitated by representatives from anti-GMO advocacy groups Greenpeace and the Third World Network, is part of the implementation of the landmark ordinance which bans  living genetically-modified organisms in the province.

Key LMO bans under the ordinance are: entry of living GMOs and experimentation and/or field testing related to it, as well as planting or growing and selling or trading of living GMOs.

PARO thanks Navarra
for support to CARP

Provincial Agrarian Reform Officer Teresita Depeñoso recently met with Bacolod Bishop Vicente Navarra at the Bishop’s House in Bacolod City to thank him for his support for the extension of Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program that will expire in June this year, a press release from her office said. 

The bishop made the declaration at the Diocesan Rural Congress that tackled the “Dignity of the Rural Poor” conducted in Bacolod City on March 25.

Depeñoso, in behalf of the Department of Agrarian, explained to Navarra the various bills seeking the extension of CARP, including the one which seeks a 10-year extension, six years of which is for the completion of Land Tenure Improvements and the remaining four, for the delivery of Support Services for farm productivity.

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