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LECTURE First District Councilor Atty. Melchor Quitain reads the Local Government Code during Tuesday’s City Council session to remind fellow councilors on the local government’s capacity to stop mining in the city. (davaotoday.com photo by MEDEL V. HERNANI)

30-million peso calamity fund ratted out?

The city council wants to find out what happened to the 30-million peso calamity fund provided to eight villages in Paquibato District.

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Read more about the article Losing my re(li)gion: Agri-exporters pessimistic with ASEAN regional integration
WHILE THEY WERE WAITING. Coconut and banana vendors take a rest while they wait for customers in Pantukan town, Compostela Valley. (davaotoday.com photo by Ace R. Morandante)

Losing my re(li)gion: Agri-exporters pessimistic with ASEAN regional integration

By TYRONE A. VELEZ Davao Today Davao City - Businessmen attending the 1st Mindanao Exporters Congress (MEC) said they are not ready to compete with cheap fruit imports once tariffs…

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Mindanao cacao stakeholders push for price control, increased production

By JOHN RIZLE L. SALIGUMBA
Davao Today

The players in the cacao industry have targeted to produce one Million metric tons of cacao by 2014.  Currently, the target falls short with the country producing only 20,000 MT out of the 130,000 to 150,000 MT target.  The country needs to plant cacao to about 130,000 hectares to reach the target.

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