Typhoon Pablo damaged coconut crops that amounted to a loss of P33 billion.
Ferdie Marañon (right), president of the DAvao Region office of the Philippine Export Conference, introduces the electronic to mobile processing of export documents at the Bureau of Customs. (Medel V. Hernani, davaotoday.com)
Soc Banzuela, national coordinator of Kilus Maniniyog, explains the demands of the three million poor coconut farmers to get back their P 71 billion from the levy fund during Martial Law and now deposited to the National Treasury and the United Coconut Planters Bank. Farmers are now on their first week of the 71-day walk to Malacanang starting from Davao City. (Medel V. Hernani, davaotoday.com)
Karaptan Southern Mindanao staged a rally in front of the Commission on Human Rights office along Quimpo, Boulevard. The group slammed the commission for failing to solve human rights abuses allegedly committed by the Armed Forces of the Philippines. (Ace R. Morandante/davaotoday.com)
If Tito Manny is alive to this day, for sure he will be one of the advocates against aerial spraying in banana plantations for this endangers the lives of our people.