The province of Negros Occidental is at the forefront in the organic movement compared to other provinces and regions in the Philippines, Department of Agriculture Assistant Secretary for Fisheries Salvador Salacup, said yesterday.

Salacup, who is also the executive director of the Bureau of Agriculture and Fisheries Product Standards, was in Bacolod City yesterday for the Visayas-Wide Awareness Conference on Organic Agriculture Act of 2010 for Local Chief Executives at the Bacolod Pavillon.

“We look up to the organic practitioners of Negros and we would like to feature their success stories to other provinces and regions, which I hope they will replicate,” Salacup said.

‘Thrift banks white knights
for ailing rural counterparts’

MANILA -– The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas and the Philippine Deposit Insurance Corp. have approved the inclusion of strong and well-managed commercial banks and thrift banks as eligible "white knights" for ailing rural banks.

The BSP said inclusion of KBs and TBs as strategic third party investors under what is now called Strengthening Program for Rural Banks Plus aimed to further “encourage faster consolidation in the banking industry especially of small sub-scale banks.”

“This program is envisioned to further strengthen the rural banking system, boost confidence, and improve the delivery of financial services to rural communities,” the BSP said in a press release.

Healthy food talk slated

The 3rd healthy, natural and organic healing food talk and demo by Ronnie Guance of Kusinero Negrense will be held at Aboy’s Restaurant in Goldenfields Complex, Bacolod City, 9 a.m. to 12 noon on May 18, a press release from organizers said.

Guance will cook a meatless and bloodless dinuguan, to show his version of a mix of local healthy natural healing foods. The event is for free, the press release added.*

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