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The blessing and inauguration of the Brgy. Salvacion Farmers and Hog Raisers Association meatshop at the Smile Village, of Brgy. Salvacion, Murcia.*Farmers and hog raisers in Murcia, Negros Occidental, received a package of cash incentives and agricultural services aimed at boosting their productivity, recently.Negros Occidental Gov. Eugenio Jose Lacson, together with Mayor Gerry Rojas and other Murcia officials, led the distribution of cash incentives to 181 rice farmers from Murcia.The governor said the Quick Turn Around or Early Planting Incentive Project provides cash incentives to farmers engaged in early planting from April to May as support to rice requirements in the province during the off-milling season, particularly during the height of the pandemic.The qualified...

Fuel prices are expected to go down again on Tuesday, October 4, for a fifth straight week.Diesel should go down by P0.50 to P0.60 per liter, and gasoline by P0.40 to P0.50 per liter, Unioil Petroleum Philippines said Saturday, October 1.There have been per-liter increases of P14.85 for gasoline, P29.40 for diesel, and P24.10 for kerosene since the start of 2022, the Department of Energy oil monitor on September 27 showed.*

So Ha Uy, Mayor Alfredo Benitez and Anthony Sy (l-r) hold up the S&R lot lease contract they signed on Friday.*S&R Membership Shopping, a warehouse club that retails premium quality imported products, will be hiring more than 200 Bacolodnons when its outlet opens at the Bacolod reclamation area, its president Anthony Sy said Friday, September 30.Mayor Alfredo Abelardo Benitez signed a contract with Sy for the lease of a 200-square meter road lot owned by Bacolod City at the reclamation area to S & R.So Ha Uy representing the lot-lessors of S &R was also a signatory.Benitez said the entry of S& R is good because Bacolod is poised for a strong economic comeback.“The economic recovery that we have planned for the city is now kicking in and will soon mat...

The closed road*The VICMICO Planters Association enjoins its planter-members to allow cane trucks and emergency vehicles to pass through their farms, even though Victorias Milling Company (VMC) continues to close the main and most accessible road leading to competitor mills.“Last week, some sugar farmers complained that some farm owners denied passage of cane trucks through their farms. Apparently, these road closures were the reactions of affected cane farmers to the oppressive closure by VMC of access roads, which have been traditionally used by cane farmers since the establishment of the mill more than 100 years ago,” said Aurelio “Bodie” Valderrama Jr. in a press release Monday, September 26.Valderrama is the president of the VICMICO Planters Association. He is also the new...

Fuel prices are expected to drop for a fourth straight week on Tuesday.Unioil Petroleum Philippines said diesel should go down by P1.20 to P1.30 per liter, and gasoline by P1.50 to P1.60 per liter from Tuesday, September 27, to October 3.Oil companies slashed the price per liter of diesel and kerosene by P4.15 and P4.45, respectively, on September 20.*

Brent Nighel Anzano with Rowena Guanzon who is holding a bag painted by Joemel Bernard Arroyo (l-r) at the Negros Trade Fair in Makati.*The sales at the ongoing 36th Negros Trade Fair (NTF) at Glorietta 2 in Makati City hit P18.1 million on Thursday, Sybel Nobleza, Association of Negros Producers (ANP) external affairs manager, said on Friday, September 23.The NTF sales from Tuesday to Thursday increased by 29 percent compared to the first three days of their 2019 trade fair in Makati, she said.The ongoing NTF will run until Sunday, September 25.Most products at the trade fair, including those of special needs students, were enjoying brisk sales.Among the products on sale at the NTF are those produced by the special needs students of Happy Beginners School of Learning i...