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| Dumaguete City, Philippines | Monday, February 10, 2014 |
| Negros Oriental | |
 DA fund withdrawal due to unliquidated accounts Customs
to investigate Larena rice smuggling Five dead in new Philippine bus crash ‘Catholics support Pope, but split on teachings’ |
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DA fund withdrawal due
to unliquidated accounts
BY JUANCHO GALLARDE
The withdrawal of funds from the Department of Agriculture to Negros Oriental was due to unliquidated transfers that had accumulated since 2001, Jose Elumba, officer-in-charge of the DA Regional Technical Division for Research and Regulations, said recently.
Elumba was responding to allegations that those with political bias are trying to withhold the release of funds to purchase the two tractors committed by DA Secretary Proceso Alcala to the province earlier.
Elumba said the allocation for farm tractors is on a counterpart basis, with 85 percent to be funded by the DA and 15 percent by the recipient local government units. This means that, for a P2.2 million farm tractor, the LGU counterpart is around P300,000, he added.
| Nursery completion eyed April The construction of the country’s biggest nursery in Barangay Banban, Ayungon town, Negros Oriental, is expected to be completed in April, and will have a production capacity of 40 million seedlings each year. Provincial Environment and Natural Resources officer Charlie Fabresaid the mechanized and modernizednursery, worth about P75.5 million, sits on a 10-hectare lot in Banban. Ayungon Mayor Edcel Enardecido and other officials said they hope that the facility can help boost the tourism potential of the town, aside from it being the source of planting materials in Central Visayas and nearby regions. |
| Five dead in new MANILA – Five people were killed in a bus crash in the northern Philippines, the second deadly bus accident in two days, authorities said yesterday. The bus was carrying more than 30 people when its brakes malfunctioned and it toppled into a ditch in the northern province of Abra in the Cordillera Administrative Region Saturday, police said. One person died on the spot and four others in hospital, said regional military spokesman, Supt. Davy Vicente Limmong. |
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