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Read more about the article Youth group drums up call for free education, hits Duterte’s economic managers
In this photo taken on July 21, 2017, youth groups in the region marched along Magallanes street, two days before the second State of the Nation Address of President Rodrigo Duterte, calling for free education and the stop of attacks against Lumad schools. (MD Genotiva/davaotoday.com)

Youth group drums up call for free education, hits Duterte’s economic managers

Youth groups are set to march to register their demand for free education this Friday, August 4, a day before the deadline of the signing of the proposed Universal Access to Quality Tertiary Education Act.

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Read more about the article Drop in number of mothers who complete exclusive breastfeeding to their infants alarming
Worldwide simultaneous breastfeeding event held in a mall in Davao City last August 2015. (Ace R. Morandante/davaotoday.com file photo)

Drop in number of mothers who complete exclusive breastfeeding to their infants alarming

A group of mothers expressed alarm over the decrease of the number of lactating mothers who complete exclusive breastfeeding to their infants, a situation that signals the increase of infants and babies being fed by substitute milk.

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Read more about the article UP Mindanao students protest collection of tuition
PROTEST IN UP. Protest marks the first day of enrollment in the University of the Philippines in Mindanao Tuesday, Aug. 1 as students express opposition to the collection of school fees in the state university. Budget Secretary Benjamin Diokno recently announced that the government cannot afford to provide free college education to students of state colleges and universities. (Photo by Marie Crestie Joie Contrata)

UP Mindanao students protest collection of tuition

Students of the University of the Philippines in Mindanao were taken aback after the school administration announced it will continue to collect tuition a day before the enrollment Sunday, July 30.

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Read more about the article Stakeholders converge to save falling mango industry in PHL
STAKEHOLDERS’ GATHERING – More than 600 stakeholders from various parts of Mindanao converged in a one-day forum at the Mandaya Hotel in Davao City on Wednesday, Aug. 2 to participate in the drafting of the 5-year roadmap to save the dwindling mango industry in the Philippines. (Alex d. Lopez/davaotoday.com)

Stakeholders converge to save falling mango industry in PHL

More than 600 planters, growers, businessmen and other mango industry stakeholders from various parts of Mindanao gathered in a one-day consultation at the Grand Mandaya Hotel here on Wednesday.

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Read more about the article PH dairy industry to increase self-sufficiency in 5 years
SELF-SUFFICIENCY. Isidro Albano, the Dairy Industry Confederation of the Philippines Chairman and Mindanao Alliance of Dairy Industry Stakeholders Association (MADIS) President, says the dairy industry in the country is eyeing to increase the self-sufficiency rate from one percent to 10 percent in a period of five years. (Robby Joy D. Salveron/davaotoday.com)

PH dairy industry to increase self-sufficiency in 5 years

With ?the country's production comprising only one percent of the national dairy requirement, the dairy industry embarks on another attempt to increase it to 10 percent after five years, an official said.

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