Ilocos farmers cashing in on high tobacco prices this trading season; Class-AA Virginia tobacco is being bought at R73 per kilo.
Byline: Freddie G. Lazaro CANDON CITY -- Tobacco farmers are rejoicing over the continuous increase in the buying price of the fluecured Virginia tobacco in Ilocos Sur, it was reported. Estrella de Peralta, manager of the National Tobacco Administration (NTA) branch in this city, said...

DA head opens P31-M corn post-harvest facility; Sarangani plant is third such facility for farmers in Region 12.
Byline: BONG REBLANDO GENERAL SANTOS CITY -- Agriculture Secretary Arthur C. Yap inaugurated yesterday a R31-million post-harvest processing facility for corn and a trading center at Poblacion, Malungon, Sarangani. It was the third post-harvest facility built in Region 12 by DA and National Agribusiness Corp....

EDUCATION EXTRA.
Byline: The Register-Guard The Teacher's Funeral By Richard Peck Dial, 2004 Ages 10 and up Newbery-winning author Richard Peck, called America's best living author for young adults, offers a true-to-life revelation of the rural Midwest at the turn of...

Vegetable growers eye shareof growing overseas markets.
DAVAO CITY a" When the 500 participants of the 4th National Vegetable Congress meet in Davao City from April 26 to 28, they will advocate strongly for the adoption of cluster farming as a means of supplying high quality vegetables to large markets. They will also discuss...

Estrada testifies on scams allegedly committed by Chavit.
Byline: EDMER PANESA Former President Joseph Estrada yesterday turned the tables on Ilocos Sur Gov. Luis "Chavit" Singson when he told the Sandiganbayan Special Division about the alleged irregularities committed by his main accuser even before he (Estrada) became president. At the continuation of his...

Your rights, their rights.
NEW YORK, NOVEMBER 12 WE hear the clamor in the matter of the Patriot Act and other measures associated with retiring attorney general John Ashcroft. Just rubbing a hand lightly over U.S. history reminds us that these questions arose in the past, notoriously with the Alien and...

NFA prods private sector to lead in post-harvest facility investment.
Byline: MELODY M. AGUIBA The National Food Authority (NFA) is deferring implementation of a P1.6-billion post harvest project in a new government thrust to allow the private sector to take the lead in infrastructure building that will support an increased rice output program. "Weare holding...

Transforming the countryside into dynamic communities.
THE strong performance of the agriculture sector was one of the key factors which kept the Philippine economy afloat in the wake of a global economic slowdown. With the government pushing for the modernization of agriculture and fisheries, the goal of the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR)...

Poisoning the big apple. (Pesticides: A Chemical Weapon).
Widespread and indiscriminate pesticide spraying, purportedly for West Nile Virus, began in New York City two years before 9-11. Such spraying is now recommended policy for urban areas throughout the country. Spraying was, and remains, one important but neglected piece in the biological warfare puzzle. Mass spraying...

This old barn, this new money: tobacco farmers are in trouble. Except that is, the ones who have discovered a lucrative alternative.
From the outside, this old barn in Stickleyvile, Virginia looks like any other barn you might find among the remote mountain hollows of Appalachia. Rough pine and hemlock siding keeps out the rain and wind. Chestnut and oak beams hold up the roof. Rows of curing tobacco plants hang...