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                    [Title] => Plant food to alleviate hunger in countryside, agri SUCs urged
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To address the reported rise in the incidence of hunger in the country, the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) wants all state agricultural colleges and universities to plant food, especially vegetables, in their idle but fertile agricultural lands.

[DatePublished] => 2011-04-14 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1664250 [AuthorName] => Rainier Allan Ronda [SectionName] => Education and Home [SectionUrl] => education-and-home [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 384506 [Title] => 4 areas picked to pilot sweet sorghum farming [Summary] => STA. MARIA, Ilocos Sur – Four farming areas in the Ilocos region have been  designated for the pilot planting of sweet sorghum, a crop that will be utilized as base material for ethanol that is needed for biofuel production.

Presidential Assistant for Northern Luzon Ernie Mendoza said the four areas are located in Batac, Ilocos Norte, this town in Ilocos Sur, Rosales, Pangasinan, and in Sto. Tomas, La Union.

He said President Arroyo will soon be going to the Mariano Marcos State University (MMSU) in Batac to launch the planting program.
[DatePublished] => 2007-02-11 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1767161 [AuthorName] => Teddy Molina [SectionName] => Agriculture [SectionUrl] => agriculture [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 383550 [Title] => DA, DOST launch national IT center [Summary] => It’s simply called NITS.

It stands for National Information and Technology Services center, a facility that looks forward to broadening the horizons of information delivery systems in the country.
[DatePublished] => 2007-02-05 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1723283 [AuthorName] => Rudy A. Fernandez [SectionName] => Technology [SectionUrl] => technology [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 246916 [Title] => Where students are real farmers [Summary] => Visitors to the Central Luzon State University campus in Munoz, Nueva Ecija, leave for home with gifts of a sack of rice, quail and chicken eggs, mangoes, tomatoes and onions grown in the fields. We were given our share of the goods on our trip there last week. Dr. Rodolfo C. Undan, CLSU president, said the institution offers its students theoretical and practical instruction ˆ making its curricular offerings different from those of other state universities. [DatePublished] => 2004-04-20 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134209 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804859 [AuthorName] => Domini M. Torrevillas [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 90382 [Title] => Arroyo creates Palace office for agricultural adviser [Summary] => More than a month after appointing former Bulacan Rep. Angelito Sarmiento (Lakas) as among her Cabinet-rank advisers, President Arroyo has created for him the Office of the Presidential Adviser on Agricultural Modernization (OPAAM).

The OPAAM, under the Office of the President, was established through Executive Order No. 8 signed on March 26, a copy of which was obtained by The STAR.
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