Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte who appeared before the Senate Committee on Agriculture and Food hearing Monday said the current state policy on importation of rice does not benefit the Filipino farmers.
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National Food Authority Davao City Manager Felimon Cangreho appeared on Monday’s Kapehan sa SM saying that there has been no cases of illegal importation of rice in the city, nor does he have contacts with alleged rice smuggler Davidson Bangayan. (Ace Morandante/ davaotoday.com)
City Councilor Marissa Salvador-Abella, said her committee on agriculture will promote agriculture production in the city with focus on cacao. She also mentioned highlights in her trip to Thailand to observe agricultural production. (Ace Morandante/ davaotoday.com)
By MART D. SAMBALUD Davao Today TAGUM CITY– Over 5,000 athletes, coaches and officials from six cities and four provinces…
The awaited appearance of Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte on the Senate’s inquiry helped pinned Davidson Bangayan for his involvement in smuggling imported rice.
A breakaway Moro guerrilla group in Central Mindanao said the main bulk of its forces were out of harm’s way of government military artillery shellings and that its forces were divided into engaging in gunbattles or planting and indoctrination of its mass base.
A children’s advocacy group said classes were disrupted as school children were “too afraid to go to school” after military troops “encamped” in their classrooms in a farflung village in Compostela, Compostela Valley province.
Farmers and activist groups in Davao held a march-rally in commemoration of the 27th year of the Mendiola Massacre where 13 farmer-activists were gunned during a violent dispersal in 1987. Today, farmers slam government’s failure of implementing agrarian reform and protection of farmers amidst rice cartel and smuggling of imported rice. (Medel V. Hernani/davaotoday.com)
