Tolentino to NSA?
Retired Army chief Romeo Tolentino will be named assistant secretary at the Office of the National Security Adviser, sources told The STAR.
Tolentino, who retired from military service two months ago, would be in charge of food security due to his expertise in agriculture.
“He is expected to assume the post after he returns from his trip abroad on the first week of November,” the source said in a telephone interview.
The source, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he has no authority to speak of the appointment, said that Tolentino is looking into the development of his agricultural projects in
“Now, his focus would not be concentrated on agricultural and environmental projects within Army camps,” the source said.
“He could work on a larger environment where he could initiate livelihood projects for food security.”
Tolentino will also look into coconut production as one of his programs once he takes over the post at the NSA, the source added.
When he was Army 7th Infantry Division commander, Tolentino started a jathropa cultivation project in line with the government’s bio-diesel program to reduce the country’s dependence on imported oil.
The 7th ID, which is based at Fort Ramon Magsaysay in
Lt. Col. Jesus Sarsagat, Army 7th division training unit commander, said they also have the biggest nursery for jathropa in a facility near the Cordero Dam here that has 500,000 seedlings, which is being propagated in
The military camp also boasts the largest plant nursery, which also houses more than 1.3 million other seedlings of various varieties of hardwood, fruit bearing and flowering trees. The nursery is using a gravity-driven drip irrigation method, Sarsagat added.
Seedlings from the nursery were used to
It was formerly the impact area of artillery fire during training.
Soldiers painstakingly carried rucksacks with five kilos of fertilized soil each up the mountain before the seedlings were planted. —James Mananghaya
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