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                    [AuthorName] => Mons Romulo
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                    [Title] => Flagging
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Growth in the third quarter dropped to 5.3%, much lower than anyone expected.

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                    [Title] => PB asks DA, DAR, BSP: Implement Agri-Agra Law in Cebu Law provides for credit and financing system to boost agriculture
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The Cebu Provincial Board (PB) has asked the Department of Agriculture (DA), the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) and the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) for the full implementation of “Agri-Agra law” in the Province of Cebu.

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                    [Title] => Mahal ni Madam Gloria ang mga magsasaka!!!
                    [Summary] => IBA talaga si Madam Senyora Donya Gloria kung magmahal.  Gaya ng pangako niya dati ay sisikapin niya raw paunlarin ang sector ng pagsasaka at pilit niya nga itong tinupad sa pamamagitan ng paghirang kay Jocjoc Bolante bilang isa sa Agriculture undersecretary.  


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                    [Title] => Developing farmlands for agribusiness
                    [Summary] => President Arroyo has set the development of two million hectares of farm lands for agribusiness to generate two million jobs during her six-year term to support her poverty alleviation programs.


In line with this, the Department of Agriculture has listed targeted commodities and the corresponding "development" hectarage - 1.35 million hectares for coconut, 283,940 hectares for high value crops, 280,250 hectares for corn, etc.


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                    [AuthorName] => Franklin M. Panahon
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                    [Title] => Abolition of ‘escape clause’ in Agri-Agra Law pushed
                    [Summary] => Senate Majority Leader Loren Legarda is pushing for amendments to the Agri-Agra Law or PD 717 to correct commercial banks’ bias against agricultural lending.


Specifically, Senate Bill 707, authored by Legarda, calls for the removal  of an escape clause in the law that allows banks to practically get away  with token  compliance of the mandatory lending provision to small farmers and small-scale agricultural activities.


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                    [Title] => ADB wants NFA to give up grains trading
                    [Summary] => The Asian Development Bank (ADB) said the National Food Authority (NFA) should give up its grains trading function and turn this over to the private sector.


Tom Crouch, ADB country director said allowing the private sector to conduct grains procurement, including rice importation, will encourage transparency and eliminate corruption that often results in a government monopoly. 


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                    [Title] => NFA strengthens program for farmers
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NFA Administrator Arthur Yap in a statement said the program has already been endorsed to the President in a memorandum he co-signed last Jan. 14 with Agriculture Secretary Luis Lorenzo  Jr. and Secretary for Agricultural Modernization and NFA chairman Angelito Sarmiento.


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                    [Title] => PAJ launches Binhi Awards
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Another highlight of the evening affair was the blowing of the anniversary cake candles led by PAJ president Roman Floresca of the Philippine STAR.


Guest of honor and speaker was Angelito M. Sarmiento, Presidential Adviser for Agricultural Modernization.


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                    [Title] => GMA bares P2-B ‘idle’ fund at LBP
                    [Summary] => Sometimes there are two billion reasons for a president to celebrate.


President Arroyo said yesterday the government has stumbled upon P2 billion lying "idle" at the Land  Bank of the Philippines (LBP) and said this will be used to implement the Agricultural and Fishery Modernization Act (AFMA).


The money is part of other unspecified amounts under the Public Law 480 loan for rice from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Fertilizer Funds.


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NFA Administrator Arthur Yap in a statement said the program has already been endorsed to the President in a memorandum he co-signed last Jan. 14 with Agriculture Secretary Luis Lorenzo  Jr. and Secretary for Agricultural Modernization and NFA chairman Angelito Sarmiento.


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Another highlight of the evening affair was the blowing of the anniversary cake candles led by PAJ president Roman Floresca of the Philippine STAR.


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