More retail stores will sell National Food Authority rice in Negros Occidental by the end of the year, Procopio Trabajo, manager of the agency in the province, said yesterday.

NFA records show that there are now 101 retail stores selling NFA rice in the province, 16 of them in Bacolod City.

Trabajo said there will soon be additional NFA outlets in the cities of Escalante, Silay and Sagay and in Hinoba-an.
In Bacolod City, NFA outlets will be put up in Barangays Alangilan, 34, Handumanan, Mansilingan and in Sitio Magsungay, Brgy. Singcang-Airport, Trabajo said..

359 beneficiaries
get CLOAs
BY ADRIAN NEMES

The Department of Agrarian Reform distributed Certificates of Land Ownership Awards to 359 Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries from five cities and five towns in northern Negros Occidental at its office yesterday.

Teresita Mabunay, Provincial Agrarian Reform Program Officer for northern Negros Occidental said the distribution is part of DAR’s 26th Anniversary celebration on the theme “Kabuhayan at Kaunlaran sa Sariling Lupa (Livelihood and Development through own land)”.

Mabunay said the recipient farmers are from the cities of Escalante, Sagay, Cadiz, Victorias, and Silay and from the towns of Toboso, Calatrava, Manapla, E.B. Magalona and Don Salvador Benedicto..

Advertising partnership
announced
BY ADRIAN NEMES

The Crave Digital Advertising specializing on LED billboards and the IXM collective media that is behind the product branding of several firms in Bacolod City, formally announced their partnership yesterday at the Bar 21 and Restaurant.

The partnership is aimed at further improving the advertising industry in the city, Andreo Bongco, branding manager of IXM Collective media, said.

Bongco said their firm is quite new in the business but, so far, they were able to handle the branding and the ad concepts for 14  schools, hospitals, food producers, micro, small and medium enterprises among others.

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