By ALEX D. LOPEZ Davao Today “Ang nakakatakot sa planong pag-take-over ng National Electrification Administration o NEA sa ating kooperatiba ay ang napakalaking posibilidad na mabenta ito sa pribadong korporasyon,” Bayan Muna Partylist Representative Teddy Casiño speaking before Daneco’s second general assembly held in Tagum Sunday.
By ALEX D. LOPEZ Davao Today Elenito Escalante, chairperson of the teachers’ group Kahugpongan sa mga Magtutudlo ug Kawani sa Edukasyon sa Mindanao (Kamkem) said K + 12 is not the answer to the shortage of classrooms, textbooks, and the problem on teachers, among others which are recurring problems of the country’s educational system.
By ALEX D. LOPEZ Davao Today Masipag said that when farming first became dependent on chemicals, synthetic and imported inputs that were institutionalized through the green revolution program in 1960s, the incidence of poverty and hunger steadily increased in the countryside, especially among the farmers.
BY KENETTE JEAN I. MILLONDAGA Davao Today Citing cases where additional funding of health programs by the government failed to reduce ailments suffered especially by children in remote villages, Pedro Arnado of peasant group Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas in Southern Mindanao Region, hopes this one will not again be for naught.
By ALEX D. LOPEZ Davao Today “GM corn has completely changed the landscape of corn farming in the country, in a negative way,” Dr. Chito Medina, National Coordinator of farmers’ welfare advocacy group, Masipag (Magsasaka at Siyentipiko para sa Pag-ulad ng Agrikultura).