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The celebration of the First Farmers’ Day yesterday turned into an avenue to complain about the government’s ‘failure’ to make the welfare of farmers a priority.

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Coal-fired power plants remain the dominant source of electricity in the country, latest data from the Department of Energy (DOE) showed.

[DatePublished] => 2010-07-25 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096364 [AuthorName] => Donnabelle L. Gatdula [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 441754 [Title] => Agitprop sizzles, then ends in a whimper [Summary] =>

When we first learned of the protest march by Sicogon islanders, we thought it was a march by thousands.

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Named Sugar Farm Information System, the software was designed by the Philippine Sugar Research Institute Foundation, Inc. (Philsurin) after standardizing the analysis methods of the soil laboratories of five entities; Department of Agriculture-Iloilo, Philsurin, Lopez Sugar, First Farmers, and Negros Prawn.
[DatePublished] => 2005-03-20 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Agriculture [SectionUrl] => agriculture [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 230698 [Title] => Negros power plant to use bagasse as fuel [Summary] => First Farmers Holding Co. signed recently an agreement with Talisay Bioenergy Inc. (TBI) to develop a high technology co-generation plant within the First Farmers compound. Using bagasse, a sugar cane by-product, obtained from the sugar mill as its primary fuel source, this plant will create 30MW of "clean and green" electricity that will help address the impending power crisis in Negros.
[DatePublished] => 2003-12-07 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Agriculture [SectionUrl] => agriculture [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 99079 [Title] => Rains fail to dampen hopes of sugar sector [Summary] =>

The heavy rains have failed to dampen hopes of a recovery this year by the sugar industry.

From only 1.63 million metric tons in cropyear 1998-1999, the sugar sector is optimistic that production for the current cropyear (1999-2000) will reach 1.65 to 1.7 million metric tons.

And expectations are high that cropyear 2000-2001 which begins Sept. [DatePublished] => 2000-05-17 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) ) )

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                    [Title] => Farmers: We are not government’s priority
                    [Summary] => 

The celebration of the First Farmers’ Day yesterday turned into an avenue to complain about the government’s ‘failure’ to make the welfare of farmers a priority.

[DatePublished] => 2015-08-12 10:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1519944 [AuthorName] => Michael Vencynth H. Braga/NSA [SectionName] => Cebu News [SectionUrl] => cebu-news [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 596000 [Title] => Coal-fired power plants remain dominant electricity source [Summary] =>

Coal-fired power plants remain the dominant source of electricity in the country, latest data from the Department of Energy (DOE) showed.

[DatePublished] => 2010-07-25 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096364 [AuthorName] => Donnabelle L. Gatdula [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 441754 [Title] => Agitprop sizzles, then ends in a whimper [Summary] =>

When we first learned of the protest march by Sicogon islanders, we thought it was a march by thousands.

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Named Sugar Farm Information System, the software was designed by the Philippine Sugar Research Institute Foundation, Inc. (Philsurin) after standardizing the analysis methods of the soil laboratories of five entities; Department of Agriculture-Iloilo, Philsurin, Lopez Sugar, First Farmers, and Negros Prawn.
[DatePublished] => 2005-03-20 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Agriculture [SectionUrl] => agriculture [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 230698 [Title] => Negros power plant to use bagasse as fuel [Summary] => First Farmers Holding Co. signed recently an agreement with Talisay Bioenergy Inc. (TBI) to develop a high technology co-generation plant within the First Farmers compound. Using bagasse, a sugar cane by-product, obtained from the sugar mill as its primary fuel source, this plant will create 30MW of "clean and green" electricity that will help address the impending power crisis in Negros.
[DatePublished] => 2003-12-07 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Agriculture [SectionUrl] => agriculture [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 99079 [Title] => Rains fail to dampen hopes of sugar sector [Summary] =>

The heavy rains have failed to dampen hopes of a recovery this year by the sugar industry.

From only 1.63 million metric tons in cropyear 1998-1999, the sugar sector is optimistic that production for the current cropyear (1999-2000) will reach 1.65 to 1.7 million metric tons.

And expectations are high that cropyear 2000-2001 which begins Sept. [DatePublished] => 2000-05-17 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) ) )

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