KABANKALAN AND BAGO

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                    [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
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                    [AuthorName] => Fermin M. Diaz
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                    [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
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                    [AuthorName] =>  Katherine Adraneda
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Sugar industry gets back on its feet

By Fermin M. Diaz | February 9, 2003 - 12:00am

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...

Agriculture

Gov’t releases P217-M from ACEF fund for irrigation projects

By Katherine Adraneda | March 3, 2002 - 12:00am

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