Mindanao Daily News Caraga (May 24, 2013 Issue)

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Agusan Sur LGU seeks means to address agriculture woes Region 12 produces P15.6 billion worth of corn

KORONADAL CITY -The value of corn produced in Region 12 last year reached a staggering P15.6 billion, a regional Department of Agriculture (DA) official said. Zaldy Boloron, DA-12 corn program coordinator, said in the 130-page “Regional Corn Roadmap CY (Calendar Year) 2012 to 2017” presentation that corn production volume in the four-province, fivecity region last year was 1.20 million metric tons (MT), up 2.63 percent from 2011’s 1.2 million MT. “[The strong corn production performance] was due to the wide area suitable for corn production, availability of high quality seeds and access to technology,” Boloron said. Land planted to corn last year in Region 12, also called the Soccsksargen region, was 429,319 hectares (ha), he noted. Region 12 comprises the provinces of South Cotabato, North Cotabato, Sultan Kudarat and Sarangani and the cities of General Santos, Koronadal, Tacurong, Kidapawan and Cotabato. For 2011, the value of corn produced in Region, at P13 per kilo average price, would have amounted to P15.22 billion. Region 12’s corn production in 2012 makes it the third biggest corn producer in the country, after Cagayan Valley’s 7.4 million MT and Northern Mindanao’s 1.23 million MT. Four of Mindanao’s corn | page 11

By David M. Suyao

AGUSAN DEL SUR -Fully cognizant of the the sad state of agriculture for the past two decades that heavily promote monocropping and the use of biotechnologies (Palitza, 2009), the Provincial Government of Agusan del Sur (PGAS) acknowledges that the Agusanon marginal and small farmers are at the disadvantage. According to study by the Foundation for the Development of Agusanons (ADFI), the widespread promotion of Green Revolution technolo-

gies in the 1960s radically transformed agriculture from traditional farming systems to input-dependent systems characteristic of industrial agriculture. Yet several years after, the sustainability of this model of input and energy-intensive agriculture has been found to be questionable at best, and it is now increasingly acknowledged that the environmental and social costs of industrialized agriculture have been great. According to Rex Linao, Executive Director of ADFI, scientists and economists attending the Governfull story | page 8

First time MILF voters’ top senatorial choice: “Anak ni King” By Carolyn O. Arguillas MindaNews

DA R A PA NA N , Su lt an Kudarat, Maguindanao -“Anak ni King.” “Anak ni Idol.” Movie actor Fernando Poe, Jr. is nearly nine years dead but he is still “King” or “Idol” for members of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) who voted for the first time in their lives on May 13 and whose faces brightened up while saying their number one Senator was “Anak ni King” or “Anak ni Idol.” “Anak ni King” or “Anak ni Idol” is Grace Poe, who topped the senatorial race

nationwide. “Da King” or “Idol” is a movie actor who starred in action movies as defender of the poor and the oppressed. He ran for President in the 2004 polls against then incumbent Gloria MacapagalArroyo, filed an electoral protest alleging he was cheated by Arroyo but died on December 14 that same year, Fif t y-four ye ar old Achmad, a member of the security personnel of the Office of the Chairman of the MILF said he voted for the first time in his life at the Simuay Junction Central Elementary School on

CHR Inquiry - Commission on Human Rights (CHR) Chair Loretta Ann Rosales and Commissioner Manuel Mamauag listen to Fr. Peter Geremia Wednesday 22 May 2013 in Davao City at the start of the three-day public inquiry on the killing of Fr. Fausto “Pops” Tentorio. Mindanews Photo by Keith Bacongco | READ STORY

DSWD staff, boat captain abducted By MindaNews

ZAMBOANGA CITY -Gunmen suspected to be Abu Sayyaf bandits seized a social worker in Basilan Wednesday, a day after the abduction of a fishing boat skipper, a police official disclosed Wednesday. Senior Supt. Mario Dapilloza, Basilan police director, identified the abducted social worker as Jenelyn Entera, who is in charge milf | page 11 of the Department of So-

cial Welfare and Development’s (DSWD) Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) in the municipality of Ungkaya Pukan. Dapilloza said Entera was inspecting some of the 4Ps beneficiaries when four gunmen suspected to be Abu Sayyaf bandits seized her around 9 a.m. Wednesday in Barangay Ulitan in Ungkaya Pukan. The suspects, armed with caliber .45 pistols, forced Entera to board one of the two motorcycles without registration plates and sped

towards the municipality of Sumisip, Dapiloza said. Policemen, in coordination with the Army’s 104th Infantry Brigade, were deployed to track down the whereabouts of the abducted DSWD staff, he disclosed. Entera’s abduction came a day after a group of unidentified gunmen abducted Lucio Gonzales, the skipper of F/B Albert of the Zamboanga City-based SMR fishing firm. Gonzales was abducted by 15 gunmen around 8 a.m. dswd | page 11

30th International Aids Day celebration - Undersecretary of Health Dr. Enrique A. Tayag graces the 30th International Aids Day celebration on Sunday, May 19 at the kiosko Kagawasan,in Divisoria, Cagayan de Oro City. (Rodolfo D. Mendoza, PIA-10)

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