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"With Mindanao as food basket, it is best that the DA be in Mindanao, (specifically) in Davao," the President said in a dinner with Davao journalists last Friday night. 


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The Mindanao Peace and Development Fund (MPDF) was activated here last Friday with the oath-taking of its members, led by Presidential Assistant on the Peace Process Teresita Deles, who chairs its board.


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The money will come from the senator’s P200-million pork barrel for this year. But Barbers said he is sending 100 sacks of rice to the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) as his personal contribution to the fund.


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Mrs. Arroyo witnessed the signing of the formal agreement with the 50 congressmen, who each agreed to set aside P5 million of their pork barrel for the fund. 


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GMA agrees to revise EO 496

February 21, 2006 - 12:00am

COTABATO CITY — President Arroyo has promised officials of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) to have Executive Order 496 revised, convinced that some of its provisions can unduly derail efforts...

Nation

GMA eyeing old SPDA compound for DA office

October 3, 2004 - 12:00am

DAVAO CITY — President Arroyo ordered the transfer of the central office of the Department of Agriculture (DA) to the six-hectare complex that used to house the defunct Southern Philippines Development Authority...

Nation

MPDF replaces SPDA

March 15, 2004 - 12:00am

DAVAO CITY — Finally, a new agency is taking over the functions of the defunct Southern Philippines Development Authority (SPDA) which, since the 1970s, had been extending financial assistance to beneficiaries...

Nation

Barbers pledges P10-M for Mindanao fund

April 28, 2003 - 12:00am

Sen. Robert Barbers pledged P10 million yesterday to the Mindanao Peace and Development Fund that is now worth at least P500 million. The money will come from the senator’s P200-million pork barrel for this...

Headlines

P.5-B Mindanao peace fund put up

March 19, 2003 - 12:00am

President Arroyo and a group of 50 congressmen formalized yesterday their initiative to put up a P500-million Mindanao Peace and Development Fund to restore peace and order in the island and thus, lure tourists and...

Nation