Child-rights groups warn vs HSA’s effect on kids
GOV. GENEROSO, Davao Oriental?Seventeen farmers have blamed Undersecretary for Field Operations Narciso Nieto for failure of the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) last July 13 to install them in the 29-hectare Arcal Estate in Barangay Magdug here.
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Exports of Philippine-grown bananas and pineapples, most of them from the Davao region and other parts of Mindanao, may increase with the implementation of the Japan-Philippines Economic Partnership Agreement (JPEPA), but it will benefit agribusiness transnational corporations and not Filipino growers, according to independent think-tank Ibon Foundation.