PILI, Camarines Sur (24 May) -- Agriculture Secretary Bernie G. Fondevilla told the more than 600 delegations to the National 4-H Convention that the government and the people must work together in addressing critical threats of climate change which is largely attributed to man's abuse of mother earth.
Fondevilla, who is supposed to be the guest speaker during the closing program of the 4-day event, May 17-20, 2010 held at the Camarines Sur Convention Center, here, cancelled his trip to Bikol in the last minute due to an urgent call in Malacañang.
PILI, Camarines Sur (11 May) -- The Department of Agriculture (DA) in Bikol will give fuel subsidy of 40 liters per hectare, diesel or gasoline, up to a maximum of three hectares to all rice farmers using shallow tube well (STW) irrigation and/or open source of irrigation water.
This was bared yesterday by DA Bicol Regional Executive Director Marilyn V. Sta Catalina who also said that the purpose of the fuel subsidy program is to minimize production losses brought about by the El Niño phenomenon.
SORSOGON CITY (4 May) -- Former Agriculture Secretary Arthur C. Yap and Sorsogon Bishop Arturo M. Bastes led other government and non-government organization officials in the Blessing and Turn-over Ceremonies held over the week of the P10 million Greenhouse Vegetable Gardening Project within the Diocese compound, this city.