Farmers can find better future in cacao, says Villar

Irene R. Sino Cruz 08/09/2017

Considered among the country’s poorest, coconut farmers now have the opportunity to improve their earnings by going into cacao and coffee intercropping, Sen. Cynthia Villar said Tuesday. Coconut farmers earn around of P1,500 monthly, which is way…

Solid Earth gives equipment to San Fernando farmers

PR 06/30/2017

FARMERS in the hinterland of San Fernando have acquired new equipment that they can use to increase their productivity. Solid Earth Development Corp. (SEDC) human resources and administration deputy division manager Mitzie Almira Carin turned over the…

Bogo farmers receive farm inputs

PR 06/15/2017

The Agriculture office of the City of Bogo provided farm production material inputs to eight farmer associations in the city last Wednesday as part of its continuing efforts to boost the agricultural sector. Bogo City Mayor Carlo…

Farmers urged to store water during intermittent rains

Izobelle T. Pulgo 04/30/2017

DURING intermittent rains, farmers are urged to store whatever water they can, as the effects of intensely warm weather is slowly starting to affect crops and water supply. Provincial Risk Reduction and Management Office (PDRRMO) information officer…

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…

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