MANILA– After seven consecutive weeks of price hikes on their petroleum products, the management of the country’s biggest oil companies Petron Corp., Chevron and Pilipinas Shell yesterday announced they will conduct an across-the-board pump price rollback to open the month of July.

In a text advisory sent to Philippine News Agency, Petron, Shell and Chevron would cut prices of gasoline by P.55 per liter, kerosene by P.65 per liter and diesel by P.45 per liter that will take effect at 12:01 a.m. today.

Petron, in its price advisory sent to PNA, said the price adjustment “reflects movements in the international oil market and the foreign exchange rate."

Use of biogas pushed

The wider use of the biogas digester must be considered by the public because some gasses contribute to global warming, Edmund Marcella, of the Provincial Veterinary Office, said yesterday.

Marcella was one of the biogas coordinators from the Philippines invited by the Department of Agriculture to the United States to visit the biogas digesters in Houston and Dallas in Texas last month.

In one of the areas they visited Marcella said, animal manure is stored in a pond and covered with rubber to contain the methane gas while a tube pipe is connected to it.

‘Organic’ products
need certification

Most of the products in the market being labeled as “organic” are not really organic as some of them lack certification from authorized organizations, Leah Ocampo, program director of the Philippine International Food Exposition, said Saturday.

Ocampo said that not because vegetables were grown in the back yard without the use of pesticides or that fruits are picked from the tree in the forest, they can be called organic.

She said it is important that these produce are certified by authorized groups so they can be aligned with the global standards.