Growing herbal plants is another important feature in the development of organic farming in Negros, a herbal medicine expert said during his talk at the recent 3rd Negros Island Organic Farmers’ Festival in Bacolod City.

Dr. Romeo Quijano, professor of the UP College of Medicine and president of the Pesticide Action Network Philippines, said that Negros has very good sources of medicinal plants particularly in the Mt. Kanlaon Natural Park and southern Negros. 

About 12,000 are potentially medicinal but only 1,500 plant species are actively being utilized by traditional healers in the country, figures of the national inventory of plant species show.

‘P50 wage increase
reasonable, proper’

The National Congress of Unions in the Sugar Industry in the Philippines-Trade Union Congress of the Philippines said the P50  across-the-board wage increase it is seeking in Western Visayas is reasonable and proper with the present condition of the workers in the region.

In their position paper submitted at the wage consultation in Bacolod City on Wednesday, the NACUSIP-TUCP said the amount is needed by all workers receiving not only minimum wage, but also by those getting higher than the minimum wage, all of whom are equally disadvantaged by the price-wage development.

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