Coffee organically grown inside the Mt. Kanlaon Natural Park is now available for those who prefer their every cup to come from chemical-free and select coffee cherries.     

The Negros Island Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Development Foundation yesterday launched the Negros Island Rainforest Coffee produced by farmers from three upland communities of La Castellana, La Carlota and E.B. Magalona towns at a forum of the 3rd Organic Farmers’ Festival held at the Social Hall of the Provincial Capitol.

The coffee introduced yesterday came from a rainforest plantation in La Castellana cultivated by about 200 farmers who belong to the Sag-ang Organic Coffee Producers Association headed by Angelvic Labrador.

POEA, five cities sign MOU today
JOB PLACEMENTS IN MALLS TOMORROW

The Philippine Overseas Employment Administration will sign a memorandum of understanding on the campaign against illegal recruitment with five cities in Negros Occidental at 10 a.m. today, at the Governor’s Hall of the Provincial Capitol.

POEA Administrator Rosalinda Baldoz and Deputy Administrator Hans Leo Cacdac will sign the MOU together with the local chief executives of the five cities, including Talisay, Silay, Bago, La Carlota, and San Carlos.

Earlier, Bacolod City had also signed a similar MOU with POEA, the first in the Visayas.

Rice boosters urged
to fight food crisis

CEBU – President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo yesterday urged Filipinos to boil rice with yams or to eat cheaper cereals to avoid going hungry as rice prices soared to record levels.

"This is a once-a-millennium global crisis. We have an action plan," Arroyo said, noting that residents of the central island of Cebu are already using cheap sweet potatoes to help rice stocks go further.

The Philippines, one of the world's biggest rice importers, has been scrambling to boost supplies and get subsidized grains to the poor. Arroyo has warned that soaring food and energy prices could impact on the national government budget this year.

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