Consumer sentiment improved during the 3rd Quarter of the year as the overall confidence index increased to negative 13.3 percent from negative 19.5 percent in Q2, boosted primarily by more available jobs and higher income among households, the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas said in its Consumer Expectations Survey.
This is the second highest reading recorded since the nationwide CES started in 2007, the BSP said.
The BSP surveyed a total of 5,604 households from July 2 to 13 nationwide for the study.
DAR stops processing on
Negros First Ranch
The Department of Agrarian Reform-North of Negros Occidental has stopped the documentation of the coverage of the 500,000 square meters Negros First Ranch in Sta. Rosa, Murcia for the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program, Enrique Paderes, PARO-North said yesterday.
In July, Bacolod Regional Trial Court Judge Fernando Elumba issued a writ of preliminary injunction stopping the Register of Deeds of Negros Occidental from annotating the CARP coverage on the land title.
Paderes said they are already preparing the endorsement of the case to DAR Region VI for which the latter will also file an exemption for coverage to the DAR central office.
‘Food defense’ seminar
starts in Bacolod today
The Department of Agriculture and the Bureau of Agriculture and Fisheries Products Standards are sponsoring a seminar on “Food Defense Awareness” to prevent international contamination of food products today and tomorrow at Bacolod Pavillon Hotel in Bacolod City.
Ramon Uy Jr., president of Organic na Negros! Organic Producers and Retailers Association and owner of Fresh Start Organics, said the seminar aims to raise awareness on food and to develop a “defense plan” particularly on specific products based on a commodity group that have export potentials to United States of America or those that are now exported there.
He said food technologists and food producers must know all these because food products can be contaminated by chemical, physical, biological, or radiological agents.