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                    [ArticleID] => 194717
                    [Title] => Sugar industry gets back on its feet
                    [Summary] => In a scene resembling the agony and hunger in Africa, feeble chil-dren of migrant workers (sacadas) in remote sugar-growing towns of Negros have been photographed with having large protruding eyes and bloated stomach sitting help-lessly in front doors of their huts waiting for food.


It’s a pathetic picture of the early 1980s when, at the height of the sugar industry debacle, severe child malnutrition gripped the western Visayan island, traditio-nally known as the Philippines’ sugar bowl.
[DatePublished] => 2003-02-09 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1317098 [AuthorName] => Fermin M. Diaz [SectionName] => Agriculture [SectionUrl] => agriculture [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 152516 [Title] => Gov’t releases P217-M from ACEF fund for irrigation projects [Summary] => Twenty-six different projects of the sugar industry and a swine center in Iloilo stand to benefit from a recent fund release amounting to P217 million from the Agricultural Competitiveness Enhancement Fund (ACEF), Agriculture Secretary Leonardo Montemayor said yesterday.

President Arroyo approved the release of a P213.1-million grant and a P4.3-million loan from the ACEF during a meeting of the ACEF’s executive committee last Feb. 27
[DatePublished] => 2002-03-03 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097177 [AuthorName] => Katherine Adraneda [SectionName] => Agriculture [SectionUrl] => agriculture [URL] => ) ) )
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                    [ArticleID] => 194717
                    [Title] => Sugar industry gets back on its feet
                    [Summary] => In a scene resembling the agony and hunger in Africa, feeble chil-dren of migrant workers (sacadas) in remote sugar-growing towns of Negros have been photographed with having large protruding eyes and bloated stomach sitting help-lessly in front doors of their huts waiting for food.


It’s a pathetic picture of the early 1980s when, at the height of the sugar industry debacle, severe child malnutrition gripped the western Visayan island, traditio-nally known as the Philippines’ sugar bowl.
[DatePublished] => 2003-02-09 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1317098 [AuthorName] => Fermin M. Diaz [SectionName] => Agriculture [SectionUrl] => agriculture [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 152516 [Title] => Gov’t releases P217-M from ACEF fund for irrigation projects [Summary] => Twenty-six different projects of the sugar industry and a swine center in Iloilo stand to benefit from a recent fund release amounting to P217 million from the Agricultural Competitiveness Enhancement Fund (ACEF), Agriculture Secretary Leonardo Montemayor said yesterday.

President Arroyo approved the release of a P213.1-million grant and a P4.3-million loan from the ACEF during a meeting of the ACEF’s executive committee last Feb. 27
[DatePublished] => 2002-03-03 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097177 [AuthorName] => Katherine Adraneda [SectionName] => Agriculture [SectionUrl] => agriculture [URL] => ) ) )
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