Rocelio Tabay, head of the Davao City Technical Committee on Organic Agriculture, expresses his support for the celebration of World Food Day in the city which highlights family farming and its role in achieving food security. This year’s World Food Day celebration carries the theme “Family Farming: Feeding the World, Caring for the Earth”. (Medel V. Hernani/davaotoday.com)
Advocates of organic farming believe that sustaining family farms can help achieve food security.
Speaking before media during iSpeak forum Thursday, MASIPAG Representative Fidel O. Carpesano says that some rice traders tend to mix cheap rice, which are heavily bombarded with pesticides, to locally produced and organic rice leaving consumers unsure of food safety. (Medel V. Hernani/davaotoday.com
City hall officials are seeking a 70% share in the taxes for the Aboitiz owned 300-megawatt coal-fired power plant.
“As a mayor, I will get angry at you and I will cancel your business permit and close your establishment because you allow disorder in the city,”
Members of a teachers union here welcomed the recent pronouncement of a Department of Education official in support of salary increase for public school teachers.
DAVAO CITY -The Association of Mindanao Rural Electric Cooperatives (Amreco) and the Mindanao Development Authority (MinDA) warned that the bulk…
Mobile phone users on Friday were quick to bash government for pushing anew a plan to impose tax on text messages, saying the proposal is anti-poor and plainly absurd.
The project engineer of the Governor Generoso (Bankerohan) Bridge repair says they have to move the project completion from the original October 6 deadline to November 6 due to “unforeseen circumstances.”
Survivors of Typhoon Pablo doubted that the government’s plan to shift to planting palm oil from coconut trees in Davao Oriental will help them recover from the 2012 disaster, saying it will only “intensify land-grabbing” of their farm and ancestral lands.
