Province gears up for El Niño

Izobelle T. Pulgo 03/15/2017

WITH El Niño forecasted to occur around July of this year, the Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office (PDRRMO) is now taking steps to prepare the local government units against the possible effects of the dry…

Tuburan coffee farmers’ dream is becoming a reality

Victor Anthony V. Silva 03/09/2017

At the rate coffee farming in a midwest Cebu town is now growing, its mayor is looking into turning the municipality’s agricultural lands into tourist attractions. Tuburan Mayor Democrito “Aljun” Diamante said that making tourist attractions out…

Politics and El Niño: The heat rises

Izobelle T. Pulgo 01/03/2017

(PART 2) Following months of heated political bickering, One Cebu gubernatorial candidate Winston Garcia conceded defeat to re-elected governor, Hilario Davide III a day after the May 9 elections. Results later showed that Davide garnered 616,381 votes…

Farmers’ Day opens at Cebu City Hall grounds

12/12/2016

Over a hundred farmers from different barangays in Cebu City gathered on Monday for the annual celebration of Farmers’ Day at the Cebu City Hall grounds. Farmers displayed fresh harvests of fruits and vegetables at their vegetable-designed…

Protecting Environmental Rights and their Defenders

Atty. Gloria Estenzo Ramos 12/04/2016

Miracles are provided by Nature to all of us but we haughtily take them for granted, as if our home planet owes us these services. How can we possibly exist without the air, water, land, trees, the…

Two more die in Argao accident

Jhunnex Napallacan, Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 10/26/2016

THE death toll in the Argao truck accident rose to 6 with the death of two more women who were among the 11 victims brought to the Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center (VSMMC) in Cebu City after…

Better lukewarm than absent

Rina Jimenez-David 10/21/2016

For a while there, it looked like activists and political protesters were happy playing footsies with the police and military. Where normally activists, many of them from the Left, would be the first to raise a howl…

Gov: Everyone can be a hero

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 08/28/2016

As the country celebrates National Heroes Day today, Cebu Gov. Hilario Davide III is encouraging everyone to be a hero since everyone can be a hero. “For me, everyone of us here, in our little way, we…

How to court farmers to say “yes” to good agricultural practices

Frauline Maria Sinson 07/24/2016

Change is not always welcome, especially when it’s not as easy as the old way. That is why some conventional farmers find it hard to adjust to good agricultural practices or GAP, which is being advocated by…

Capitol distributes P4.3M worth of agri-machineries

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 06/02/2016

The Cebu Provincial Capitol distributed P4.3 million worth of agri-machineries to different farmers associations in Cebu Thursday morning at the Capitol grounds. The agri-machineries and equipment include 20 corn mills, 15 units of outdoor storage (Hermetic Cocoon),…

Capitol distributes 165 goats

05/19/2016

The Cebu Provincial Veterinary Office (PVO) distributed 165 high breed goats to farmers across the province. Fifteen of the goats are males and 150 are females. The female goats were purchased from Masbate province at a cost…

Catmon resident finds fortune in tilapia farming

04/29/2016

Dedito Rica of Barangay Can-ibuang, Catmon town has been engaging in different ventures until he found a fortune in his own backyard. Rica said he has held different jobs, including running his own retail store. Then in…

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