The Office of the Provincial Agriculturist of Negros Occidental is not only on alert against the infestation of army worms but also against black bugs, following their attack on several areas of Panay.

Provincial Agriculturist Igmedio Tabianan said Saturday that his office has not yet received any reports of black bug infestation in Negros Occidental.

Tabianan said summer is the breeding season of black bugs that are common in rain-fed and irrigated wetland environments and prefer continuously cropped irrigated rice areas and poorly drained fields.

NGCP backbone project
set for hearing by ERC

The Energy Regulations Commission has set the application for jurisdictional and evidentiary hearing on the proposed Cebu-Negros-Panay 230 Kilo volt backbone project Stage 2 of the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines, at the agency's hearing room in Pasig City on June 2.

The order scheduling the hearing was signed by ERC Executive Director III Francis Saturnino Juan April 20 and posted at the agency's website yesterday

Aside from the hearing, the expository presentation and pre-trial conference on the project is also scheduled on June 2.

EDC to expand solar capacity

The Energy Development Corp. will expand its solar capacity by 100 to 150 Megawatts in three to five years time, its Vice President for Corporate Finance Erwin Avante said.

”We're looking to have a solar capacity of 100 to 150 MWs within three to five years,” he told reporters.

However, Avante emphasized the timetable will depend on the Feed-in-Tariff.

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