Senator Honasan urges agrarian reform stakeholders to be domestically and globally competitive
“WE should enhance productivity, enhance cooperation more than confrontation, consolidate the database so that we can make informed and intelligent decision and move forward into industrialization to be globally and domestically competitive.”
This was the statement of Senator Gregorio “Gringgo” B. Honasan II, Senate committee on agrarian reform chair, in keynoting the Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries Cooperative Summit Cagayan de Oro City, Sept. 5.
He said the problem is how to harness our land and water resources and our stakeholders, farmers, the agricultural sector so that everybody can be productive.
We should reduce the confrontations and improve cooperativism among the stakeholders, he pointed out.
Honasan quoted the 1987 Constitutition that stipulates that the State shall recognize the rights of farmers, farm-women, landowners, as well as cooperatives and other individual farmer organizations to participate in the planning, organizing, and management of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) and it shall provide support to agriculture through appropriate technology and research, adequate financial, production, marketing and other support services.
The senator also cited Section 15, Article 2 of the National Economy and Patrimony in the Constitution that mandates Congress to make convenient the promotion of the viability and growth of cooperatives as instruments of social justice and cooperative development.
He mentioned the ingredients of their collective and unified efforts in cooperativism, which is community-based and operates in the principle of people empowerment where farmers beneficiaries will be self-reliant, and consolidated farm management shall be employed for greater productivity.
Nowadays, he said, farmers still engage in private farming using the backward or old method of technology where there is no leverage and are not empowered.
Cooperative farming does not only apply to the issue on agrarian reform but should apply and should be applied to the issue of the national objective of productivity, he said.
Honasan said the second ingredient is for the collective and unified efforts to be developed as rapidly as possible so that it will hasten industrialization in the countryside.
He added that the sad reality--our farmers, consumers, cooperatives and farmers’ credit cooperatives are just small, isolated patches in the agricultural landscape.
Individual private farming is still preferred and this has aggravated disparity between the more economically capable farmers with better farm technology and better access to credit, while majority of our small farmers still depend on the primitive methods of farming, he further said.
With this he urged farmer-participants that it is “high time to form our human resources, our time, our individual meager resources and to go beyond the age of existence and hand-to-mouth farming, which means they have to be organized into cooperatives to become productive and be globally competitive.”
“The Philippines will eventually have to be industrialized. It should industrialize so that it will be self-reliant,” Senator Honasan told participants of the summit, which was organized by the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR-10), in coordination with the Cooperative Development Authority (CDA-10) and other government agencies. (Babes Jacob-Rebultan, PIA-MisOrOccCam)
Jaraula orders closure, cancellation of permits vs 7 phone shops for selling low-quality units
SEVEN cellular phone shops in Cagayan de Oro City were ordered closed effective immediately by the City Government after reportedly selling inferior quality units and other electronic gadgets.
This developed after City Mayor Constantino “Tinnex” Jaraula issued Executive Order No. 2008 CGJ-54 dated August 26, 2008, ordering the cancellation of business permits and immediate closure against the business establishments owned and operated by spouses Kevin Tiu and Emily Zhang or her father Jose Entote.
In his order, Mayor Jaraula also ordered the prohibition in the issuance of business permits to the said cellular phone shop owners and operators in the future.
The seven business establishments subjected to the closure order include the HKK Mobile Center (Chavez Complex, Cogon Area); HKK Mobile Center-Branch 1 (2nd floor Limketkai Mall); HKK Mobile Center-Branch 2 (Ground Floor, Limketkai Mall).
Oro Cellshoppe and General Merchandise (Ground Floor, Gaisano Mall); Oro Cellshoppe and General Merchandise-Branch 1 (Limketkai Mall); Oro Cellshoppe and General Merchandise (3rd Floor, Gaisano Mall) and Oro Cellshoppe and General Merchandise-Branch 2 (Limketkai Mall).
The city mayor’s cancellation of business permits and closure order came after Department of Trade and Industry Provincial Director Ma. Eliza A. Pabillore received a total of 19 different complaints against the said establishments.
Despite repeated reminders and warnings from the DTI, the said cellular phone shops reportedly continue to sell low-quality, substandard phones and electronic gadgets.
The establishments also refused to honor the warranty they have granted to their consumers nor comply with the requirements on warranty as provided by the Consumer Act of the Philippines and the rules and regulations issued by the National Telecommunications Office to ensure the good quality of the units they sell.
Mayor Jaraula tasked City Police Director P/Sr. Supt. Isagani F. Genabe Jr.; City Treasurer Lino D. Daral and Director Pabilorre to implement his order. (Cagayan de Oro City Information Office/PIA-MisOrOccCam i-Net)
CdeO to host Global Peace Festival Mindanao 2008 on Sept.19-21
THE Universal Peace Federation in coordination with the City Government of Cagayan de Oro will hold the Global Peace Festival Mindanao 2008 on September 19 to 21, 2008 at the Limketkai Mall open grounds.
The Global Peace Festival Mindanao 2008, which centers on the theme: “One Global Family of Peace”, aims to promote unity and goodwill among all people, particularly here in Mindanao.
Among the highIights of the three-day event include the “International Leadership Conference with the theme “The Need for Vision and Leadership at a Time of Global Crisis: Building Partnership among Governments, Faith-Based Organizations and NGO’s” at the Pryce Plaza Hotel from September 19 to 21; the International Youth Summit with the theme “Culture of Love; The Fuel towards Development and Peace” at Corpus Christi Gymnasium, Macasandig on September 20 and the Peace Rally as the main event at Lim Ket Kai Mall open grounds on September 21, 2008.
On September 20 to 21, the 1st Mindanao Youth Power Assembly 2008 will be held in each respective high school campuses to appoint their Student Ambassadors for Peace.
A gathering of students to simultaneously conduct a Clean-Up Drive on the streets and coastlines along the Cagayan de Oro river will be held in the morning of September 21 while a colorful peace parade at 2:00 p.m. will precede the main event commencing at the Capitol grounds to Lim Ket Kai Mall open grounds.
The Gobal Peace Festival Mindanao 2008 is in conjunction with the celebration of the United Nations’ International Day of Peace and to commemorate the Philippine Martial Law declaration, now on its 37th anniversary. (Cagayan de Oro City Information Office/PIA-MisOrOccCam i-Net)
Tangub City prepares for NMRAA, conducts seminar-workshop on photography
TO enhance the skills of young Tangubanons who are interested in photography and to prepare for the upcoming summer regional athletic meet in April 2009, the city government of Tangub in Misamis Occidental will conduct a two-day seminar-workshop on basic/advance digital and non-digital photography on September 16-17 at the Function Hall –I.
The seminar-workshop will cover the basic, advance and trends and history of photography.
This also includes basic care of the cameras, as well as technicalities in using the cameras either manual or digital.
This also incorporates the basics of photojournalism that may be helpful, especially to the students who are members of the school papers in their respective schools.
Resource person is Ted Madamba, Jr., an international photographer.
He is based in Cebu City and had photography assignments outside the country like Singapore, Malaysia, USA, Canada, Australia. He was the photographer of the Tangub City coffee table book titled “Tangub City: On the Crossroads of Change”.
This activity is primarily undertaken in preparation for the Northern Mindanao Regional Athletic Association (NMRAA) meet to be held in Tangub on April 2009.
These amateur photographers would be of great help to the city in documenting several events on this historic athletic meet.
Tentatively, seminar participants are expected to vie for recognition in a photo contest on the 29th of September to see how they absorbed the discussions. (Richly Tagbacaula, Tangub City Information Office/PIA-Tangub City i-Net)
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