Gov. Alfredo Marañon, Jr. and University of the Philippines president Alfredo Pascual will lead the ground-breaking for the P6 million Tissue Culture Laboratory of Negros Occidental at the UPLB-College of Agriculture-Research and Training Station in La Granja, La Carlota City today.

The project aims to collect and establish varieties of high valued crops that are free from diseases, resilient to climate change, and readily available to the farmers. Marlin Sanogal, provincial planning and development officer, said.

She said the tissue culture will be used to develop and grow specific varieties of crops that will help the agriculture production of the province at the same time providing quality materials for the local farmers.

‘Fare hike not answer
to rising fuel rates'

The fare hike pushed transport groups is not a solution to overcome the surging cost of fuel, because it will result in a rise in the prices of basic commodities that will hit the public hard, a press release from Bayan Negros said.

Instead, the group said that oil price regulation is necessary, and this could be done by abolishing the Oil Deregulation Law in the country.

The government should also lift the 12 percent expanded value added tax on oil products rather than approving the fare hike, the press release said.*

DAR chief vows efficiency

The Department of Agrarian Reform Field Operations Office in coordination with the provincial office of DAR Negros Oriental conducted a three-day Claim Folder Review at the Plaza Maria Luisa Suites Inn, recently with DAR Secretary Virgilio De Los Reyes present, a press release the agency from said.

It was participated in by the DAR Municipal Offices staff, provincial processors and encoders of the provincial office.

The CF Review aims to update and improve the LAD Database, determine critical information about each landholding, classify landholdings into workable and problematic and determine the type of interventions needed to move them, the press release said.

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