61 SurSur farmers received CLOA
By Nida Grace P. Barcena
TANDAG CITY, Surigao del Sur, Jan. 30 (PIA) – A
total of 61 farmers from Tago town this province received the Certificate of
Land Ownership Award (CLOA) from the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) on
January 30, 2018 at Shacene Ballroom, this city.
DAR Undersecretary Karlo Bello personally
handed-over the certificates to the identified agrarian reform beneficiaries
(ARBs) assisted by DAR Caraga Regional Director Felix Aguhob, PARO Surigao del
Sur Benjamin Mataksil with the representatives from the 1st Congressional
District Office, Provincial Government Office, City Government of Tandag and
Municipal Government of Tago.
Mataksil said that a total of 110.8 hectares have
already been distributed to 61 farmers beneficiaries located in the Barangays
of Anaho Bag-o, Badong, Lindoy and Bangsud, all in Tago town.
PARO Mataksil also revealed that the beneficiaries
received the maximum of three hectares during the said distribution, while some
farmers received less than the maximum. (MYu-DAR-SDS/PIA-Surigao del Sur)
6 NPA members surrenders in SurSur
By Nida Grace P. Barcena
TANDAG CITY, Surigao del Sur, Jan. 30 (PIA) – Six
communist rebels have yielded their guns and surrendered to the army's 75th
Infantry Battalion (IB) based in Surigao del Sur, the military reported on Jan.
30.
401st Brigade Civil Military Operation Officer
Captain Rodulfo Cordero said that the six former rebels belong to the Samahang
Yunit Propaganda (SYP) Platoon in Surigao del Sur.
The former rebels (FRs) surrendered the following
firearms: one AK47, one M16A1, one improvised M14 rifles, one homemade shotgun,
one caliber .357 revolver, and two hand grenades.
Based on his interview to the former rebels, 75IB
Commanding Officer Lt. Colonel Jaime R. Datuin said that they have surrendered
to the government forces because they were already tired of the armed struggle.
“They can no longer tolerate the corruption
happening inside the CPP/NPA organization, where they extort money from the
businesses, and the people were controlled by few CPP/NPA leaders while the
ordinary members were hungry and have not received enough support from the
leadership of the said terrorist group,” Datuin said.
Datuin also added that the former rebels realized
that it is better to support the Duterte administration because of their
programs for the poor and the indigenous people.
Meanwhile, 401st Brigade Commanding Officer Colonel
Andres Centino welcomed the former NPA members for returning to the folds of
the law.
Centino further urged other active members of the
NPA to take advantage of the opportunity from the government under the
Comprehensive Local Integration Program (CLIP) so that they can live peacefully
with their family. (NGPBarcena, with a report from PA/PIA-Surigao del Sur)
DTI AgSur NCs report 59% increase in business name
registrants during this year's BOSS
PROSPERIDAD, Agusan del Sur, Jan. 30 – A 59 percent
increase in business name (BN) registrants was recorded during the conduct of
the business one-stop-shop (BOSS) this 2018 compared to 2017.
This was reported by Trade and Industry Development
Analyst, Investment Promotion and Business Name Registration Officer Chona
Marie Grado of the DTI-Agusan del Sur Provincial Office during the January 25
Kapisanan ng mga Brodkaster sa Pilipinas (KBP) Hour radio program.
The spike was partly because of the support of the
local government units in doing roving campaigns to formalize businesses in
their respective localities.
The Department of Trade and (DTI) through the
Negosyo Centers (NCs) was able to participate in 11 out of 13 business on-stop
shop (BOSS) activities in the province this month of January.
For this year (2018), the BOSS in the local
government units ran from January 3 to 26. DTI was able to join the BOSSes in
Bayugan City, Esperanza, Sibagat, Talcogon, La Paz, Prosperidad, San Francisco,
Rosario, Bunawan, Trento and Sta. Josefa.
In the case of Esperanza, as reported earlier, the
BOSS was conducted in the Negosyo Center itself, while for both San Francisco
and Trento, business name registrants of the BOSS just got their certificates
at the NCs which are just a few steps away from the actual BOSS venue.
Grado reported that DTI monitoring as of January 22
already showed mayor permittee numbers surpassing the whole month of January
figures last year.
This year's BOSS registrants of 4,452 mayor
permittees already represent 68 percent of the total permittees of 2017 at
6,485 which are expected to renew in 2018.
The January 25 KBP hour was hosted by Alfredo
Plaza, Kbp Agusan Surigao Vice Chairman; Alfredo Lobog, DXAK Station Manager;
Ivy Claire and Jordan Pajo Udtojan, SM Participating Stations; Karen Lim,
ASELCO; Shanxt Tutor with Technical head Mike Tutor of DTI AdS. (DTI-Agusan del
Sur/PIA-Agusan del Sur)
Bayugan cut flower growers train on production,
marketing
BAYUGAN CITY, Agusan del Sur, Jan. 30 – "The
cut flower growers of Barangay Pinagalaan of this city already adopted the
practices they acquired in the learning visits in Davao and Cebu last year
(2017)."
This was shared by City Agriculture Office (CAO)
officer-in-charge (OIC) Godofredo Curie during the Skills Enhancement on
Quality Cut Flower Production Cum Marketing Seminar held on January 23 to 24.
This training was a component of the 2016 Bottom up Budgeting (BuB) project on
Quality Cut Flower Production.
During the opening session, Charlotte Pingol of the
Department of Trade and Industry Negosyo Center (DTI NC)-Bayugan City gave a
brief discussion on the Negosyo Center (NC) services including the Barangay
Micro Business Enterprise (BMBE) and Pondo sa Pagbabago at Pag-asenso (P3) to
the Bayugan Federation on Cutflowers and Ornamental Plant Growers (BAFEDCOPGro)
– the BuB implementing group.
Marketing inputs were provided on the second day by
Merlie Penalver, member of the resource persons pool for #AdSNegosyoCenters,
and a Philippine Center for Entrepreneurship-accredited Kapatid Mentor Me
mentor.
In the training, Curie asked the flower farmers to
share knowledge with each other, to work as one, and motivate one another to
develop, enhance and sustain their production. He added that the LGU-Bayugan
City thru the CAO and the City Cooperative Office (CCO), together with the DTI
NC and other government offices are ready to support the said undertaking.
Fortunato Paway, officer-in-charge of CCO, also
encouraged the group to have perseverance and dedication to sustain their
economic activity. He believed these qualities are within the heart of the cut
flower growers.
Paway added that the growers should motivate themselves
to be role models among Bayuganons or Agusanons as successful flower farmer
entrepreneurs who started small. He also emphasized that they should maximize
and utilize the opportunities given by the government because all of these
initiatives are for their own benefit and development.
The cut flower growers were refreshed on flower
farming technologies as shared by Teresita Segundino and Joselito Boque of CAO.
They were reminded to practice proper preparation for planting site,
fertilization, seedling, pesticide, common pests/diseases and their control,
spray and mixing, trellising, lighting and blackening, pinching, pruning and
the dis-budding. Tying and trellising were also demonstrated to the group.
(DTI-Agusan del Sur/PIA-Agusan del Sur)
