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Bacolod City, PhilippinesThursday, June 7, 2012
TFM ready to press Palace
on agrarian reform agenda

Members of the Task Force Mapalad will meet with Cabinet officials on the huge backlog of the government in the distribution of 1.093 million hectares of land to farmers, its press release said.

The TFM said the Department of Agrarian Reform should be ready to admit its failure to hasten land distribution in Negros Occidental, where 135,000 hectares of productive agricultural land have not been subjected to notices of coverage by DAR Secretary Virgilio de los Reyes.

The press release also said that this year, DAR has vowed to meet the target of 32,000 hectares from the original goal of 58,000 hectares but the consistent failure of De los Reyes to meet his commitment only exacerbated the skepticism of thousands of CARPER beneficiaries in Negros Occidental.

Over P2M in crop
insurance paid to farmers

The Philippine Crop Insurance Corp. in Western Visayas has paid P2,044,489.60 in claims to farmer-members of the Negros First Universal Crop Insurance Program as of May 31 as remuneration for crop losses, Dina Genzola, senior agriculturist of the Office of the Provincial Agriculturist, said yesterday.

Genzola said that when farmers do not have the crop insurance their losses were not compensated but with NFUCIP they can file their claims based on the land areas they register with the program.

She said most of the losses were incurred through natural calamities floods, heavy rainfall, earthquake, and droughts, and pest infestations and plant diseases.

Guv distributes
more livestock

Gov. Alfredo Marañon Jr. allocated an additional 10 heads of roosters for poultry breeding to a group of ministers of the Prayer Mountain to help them increase their production that will be dispersed to neighboring areas in Brgy. Celestino Villacin, Cadiz City, recently.

With 500 existing heads of chicken, the group will also replicate the Negros First Dispersal program to organizations that have the same vision as theirs, Catheryn Narez, provincial livestock coordinator, said yesterday.

The group managed by the Negros Occidental Federation of Christian Churches, Inc. first received 300 heads of free range chicken in 2010 but after two years, they have increased their production to 500 heads while layers continue to hatch eggs, Narez said.

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