Grains businessmen from four cities and towns in Negros Occidental are reminded by the National Food Authority-Negros Occidental to renew their NFA license this January.

Included in the list for renewal are rice traders from E.B. Magalona, Manapla, Bacolod City , and Talisay City , the NFA said in a press release.

Requirements are business license (for old applicant) and 2x2 picture and TIN card (for new applicant). Payment for license/registration fee and other transactions will be received by the NFA cashier until 2 p.m. only. Those transacting beyond 2 p.m. can pay through the Land Bank of the Philippines .

No need to import
sugar, SRA says

The Sugar Regulatory Administration has written the minimum access volume secretariat that there is no need to import sugar because the country has enough to meet domestic demands and even plans to export to the World market its surplus, Administrator Rafael Coscolluela said yesterday.

Coscolluela corrected the misimpression that this year's production volume would dip by as much as 18.66 percent with the comparative report of production volumes of Dec. 30, 2006 as against Dec. 30, 2007 , saying it was not intended to predict the production figure for the current crop year.

Federico Locsin III, chairman of Confederation of Sugar Producer's Associations Inc.–Negros/Panay Chapter, said milling has picked up lately and that will continue as the milling season reaches its peak.

2,400 fishes in
RP to be tagged

The Department of Agriculture and the Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center are aiming for a number coding or “tagging” of up to 2,400 pieces of small pelagic fishes like galunggong, hasa-hasa and tunsoy in Palawan and Manila Bay under a joint research program leading to the formulation of a sustainable management plan, the DA said in a press release.

The plan is seen to help conserve 50 percent of the country's total marine fish catch.

BFAR Director Malcolm Sarmiento said the “tagging” involves the insertion of special number-coded yellow tags at the base of the dorsal fins of individual fishes.

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