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.