by magnolia_eic | Feb 11, 2010 | Headlines, Local News / Bohol Balita
Bohol Vice Governor Julius Caesar Herrera presses for alternative crops and family managed patches while government technology can be easily had this time to dampen the felt dry spell.
The top legislator, who also sits as the SP Agriculture Chair said he learned that the government is ready to palay farmers who want to momentarily shift to corn and that it can provide hybrid seeds.
Herrera, who with Governor Erico Aumentado has been distributing seeds and subsidies to raise Bohol’s rice sufficiency rating now eyes vegetables and root crops varieties which may be drought tolerant.
On the idle lots in the backyards, Herrera pointed out that high value commercial crops or vegetables the family can use can help on family finances.
He added that every town has government farm technicians who can help and whom people can consult for possible intervention measures. (PIA)
by magnolia_eic | Feb 8, 2010 | Headlines, National News
Tacloban City (February 7) — Department of Interior and Local Government Secretary Ronaldo Puno called on the local chief executives of the local government units to head and support the observance of the National Awareness Week for the Prevention pf Child Sexual Abuse and Exploitation. This is pursuant to Procalmation No. 731, series of 1996.
The annual observance seeks to help make communities a safe place for children. This year, the observance will focus on the Preventive Safety Lessons.
The PSL is a violence prevention program that “empowers children to take part in their own protection by giving information and skills within their own culture and religion.” The children are taught of three important things to protect them from abuses: learning to say no, run, and tell.
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by magnolia_eic | Feb 8, 2010 | Headlines, National News
DESPITE the slow recovery by the economy, preliminary data from the Bureau of the Treasury showed that the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) and the Bureau of Customs (BOC) met their respective collection targets for January.
The BIR, the government’s main revenue agency, collected P61.67 billion in January, exceeding by P5.67 billion its P56-billion target for the period. The January collections also topped the P55.3-billion collected in the same period last year.
Similarly, the BOC also beat its P14.091-billion revenue goal for the month of January with a collection of P17.602 billion. In the same month last year, the BOC collected P14.4 billion.
The BIR is tasked to collect P830 billion this year while the BOC has a collection goal of P278 billion. (PIA)
by magnolia_eic | Feb 8, 2010 | Headlines, Local News / Bohol Balita
Tacloban City (February 7) –The Department of Africulture in Central Visayas has adopted measures in order to sustain food production in Region & despite the expected El Nino that is soon to affect cropping in the first semester of 2010.
DA7 Regional Technical Director Angel C. Enriquez said, the province of Bohol and some parts of Negros Oriental in Central Visayas are included in the 24 areas in the country identified as “moderately vulnerable” to the El Nino phenomenon.
An estimated 3,788 hectares of rice lands, mostly in Bohol, is expected to be affected by drought brought about by El Nino.
DA7 is set to mitigate damage on rice production in Central Visayas through the GMA Rice program; the establishment of 844 units of shallow tube wells and pump irrigation system open-source (PISOS); restoration or rehabilitation of seven existing irrigation systems and distribution of drought-resistant varieties such as PSB Rc 68 intended for 125 hectares of affected rice areas.
Furthermore, DA7, through the National Irrigation Administration (NIA) is also intensifying its efforts to promote the Water-Saving Technology (Alternate Wet and Dry) in rice areas serviced by national and communal irrigation systems in the region.
These are only few of the preventive measures that the DA is taking to ensure that Region 7 can get through the drought with less damage.
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by magnolia_eic | Feb 8, 2010 | Headlines, National News
THE Philippine government has offered the Moro Islamic Liberation Front “enhanced autonomy” in the hope of sealing a peace accord to end 40 years of rebellion, the government’s chief negotiator said Monday.
Annabelle Abaya said the government hoped the fresh offer would convince the MILF to sign a peace accord before a new president is sworn in on June 30.
Abaya added that in enhanced autonomy, the president is offering to share powers.
Power-sharing with the large Muslim minority would cover such areas as tax collection and the control of natural resources in areas of the South that Filipino Muslims claim as their ancestral domain.
The offer was made in Kuala Lumpur last week when MILF and government panels met in the first formal peace talks since fighting broke out in 2008 over a failed draft peace accord. That earlier draft was struck down by the Supreme Court, which ruled it unconstitutional.
The MILF confirmed that peace talks were to resume in Kuala Lumpur on February 18. (PIA)
