SurSur Agriculture Office cancels meeting with
DA-Banner Program Report Officers
By Greg Tataro, Jr.
TANDAG CITY, Surigao del Sur, Feb. 12 (PIA) – Due
to Tropical Storm (TS) Basyang, the Office of the Provincial Agriculture (OPAg)
here has no other recourse but to cancel the scheduled meeting with DA-Banner
Program Report Officers set on February 13, 2018.
The action taken was made right after PAG-ASA
issued Severe Weather Bulletin No. 4, placing the Surigao del Sur under Signal
No. 2.
It was learned that a message regarding the meeting
cancellation was immediately sent through the initiative of Mark Quico, chief
provincial agriculturist.
Earlier, both Engr. Isabelo Josol, Jr.,
Agriculturist II/Engineering Unit Head of OPAg and Engr. Dexter Sablaon,
Surigao del Sur Provincial Irrigation Management Office (PIMO) Chief under the
National Irrigation Administration (NIA) had already expressed readiness to
present their respective assignments, being the highlights of the event, among
others.
Sablaon was supposed to present the “Status of
Irrigations Facilities & 2018 NIA Programs/Updates” while Josol was tasked
to make a report on the Pre- and Post-Harvest Facilities
(PPHF)/Agriculture/Machineries Accomplishment as well as the 2018 Targets.
Bong Trujillo, OPAg Information Officer, said that
a schedule resetting the same undertaking had yet to be announced. (Radyo
Pilipinas-Tandag/PIA-Surigao del Sur)
DTI sees supplies, prices of basic goods stable in
SurSur
By Greg Tataro, Jr.
TANDAG CITY, Surigao del Sur, Feb. 12 – Even as the
Tax Reform for Acceleration and Inclusion (TRAIN) law has already been on the
go, yet over half (or equivalent to 52.49 percent) of the monitored goods have
been found out to be as stable as the supply and price watch done in Surigao
del Sur three months ago, according to the Department of Trade and Industry
(DTI) here.
Manny Disca, DTI Consumer Welfare Division (CWD)
chief, bared that as far as all the 84 items of the basic commodities being
kept under watch in Tandag City, everything seemed to be fine.
"The agency had seen no problem on both
supplies and prices of basic goods at least since the New Year opened,"
the said.
Backed up with such data, Disca went on to say that
out of that number of basic commodities they kept an eye on, 48 items or
equivalent to 57.14 percent were sold below the suggested retail price (SRP).
However, he pointed out that 12 goods out of the
same number of commodities being checked went slightly higher. Also, Disca
noted that only one of the goods corresponding to 1.19 percent was seen to have
been sold at SRP. "The rest in the list were out of stock," he said.
Also, referring to the same monitoring for the
period of January 2018 as compared to the month of December 2017, Disca
disclosed that 12.96 percent of the number of goods that had been checked were
below the SRP; 12.65 percent came out to be slightly higher; while prices of
the commodities representing the 74.38 percent remained unchanged.
Again, the DTI here under Provincial Director Romel
Oribe would be coming out soon with the result of both supply and price watch
for the month of February, Disca assured. (Radyo Pilipinas-Tandag/PIA-Surigao
del Sur)
