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Array ( [results] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 195748 [Title] => Funds lack blamed for AFMA failure [Summary] => The Agricutural and Fisheries Modernization Act (AFMA) which expired last Feb. 8 flopped due to Congress failure to put money into the program.
Agriculture Undersecretary Arsenio Balisacan said that during the entire life of AFMA, huge amounts were appropriated for the program, but actual releases were inadequate to meet the departments objectives.
"AFMA was a good law, but the program hardly took off because there just wasnt enough financing," Balisacan said, adding hardly 50 percent of appropriated funds were released.
[DatePublished] => 2003-02-17 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1704647 [AuthorName] => Rocel Felix [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 192545 [Title] => DA presses hike in tariff on imported vegetables [Summary] => The Department of Agriculture (DA) is stepping up its efforts to push for an increase in the tariff rates imposed on imported vegetables from seven percent to 40 percent.
DA officials said the department is currently initiating moves to have the Tariff Commission fasttrack the hearing on its proposal so that the new tariffs could be enforced immediately.
[DatePublished] => 2003-01-23 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1704647 [AuthorName] => Rocel Felix [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 192420 [Title] => RP rejects ADB condition for release of $175-M loan [Summary] => The government will not cave in to pressure from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to lift quantitative restrictions (QRs) on rice, one of the conditions for the release of the second and third tranches of the $175-million Grains Sector Development Program (GSDP) loan.
Instead, newly-appointed Agriculture Undersecretary Arsenio Balisacan said government will insist on keeping the QRs until 2010 and only then will it consider imposing tariffs on the countrys staple food.
[DatePublished] => 2003-01-22 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1704647 [AuthorName] => Rocel Felix [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 96605 [Title] => DA exec fights for RP agricultural products in global market [Summary] => The Department of Agriculture (DA) has called for a level playing field for the country’s agricultural products to stand a chance to survive in the global market.
During a recent World Trade Organization (WTO) conference in Geneva, Agriculture Undersecretary Arsenio Balisacan said that unless other countries stop their "trade-distorting tactics," the Philippines will most likely lag behind its neighbors not only in Asia, but other countries throughout the world.
[DatePublished] => 2001-04-01 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1203478 [AuthorName] => by Rommel Ynion [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) ) )
AGRICULTURE UNDERSECRETARY ARSENIO BALISACAN
Array ( [results] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 195748 [Title] => Funds lack blamed for AFMA failure [Summary] => The Agricutural and Fisheries Modernization Act (AFMA) which expired last Feb. 8 flopped due to Congress failure to put money into the program.
Agriculture Undersecretary Arsenio Balisacan said that during the entire life of AFMA, huge amounts were appropriated for the program, but actual releases were inadequate to meet the departments objectives.
"AFMA was a good law, but the program hardly took off because there just wasnt enough financing," Balisacan said, adding hardly 50 percent of appropriated funds were released.
[DatePublished] => 2003-02-17 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1704647 [AuthorName] => Rocel Felix [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 192545 [Title] => DA presses hike in tariff on imported vegetables [Summary] => The Department of Agriculture (DA) is stepping up its efforts to push for an increase in the tariff rates imposed on imported vegetables from seven percent to 40 percent.
DA officials said the department is currently initiating moves to have the Tariff Commission fasttrack the hearing on its proposal so that the new tariffs could be enforced immediately.
[DatePublished] => 2003-01-23 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1704647 [AuthorName] => Rocel Felix [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 192420 [Title] => RP rejects ADB condition for release of $175-M loan [Summary] => The government will not cave in to pressure from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to lift quantitative restrictions (QRs) on rice, one of the conditions for the release of the second and third tranches of the $175-million Grains Sector Development Program (GSDP) loan.
Instead, newly-appointed Agriculture Undersecretary Arsenio Balisacan said government will insist on keeping the QRs until 2010 and only then will it consider imposing tariffs on the countrys staple food.
[DatePublished] => 2003-01-22 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1704647 [AuthorName] => Rocel Felix [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 96605 [Title] => DA exec fights for RP agricultural products in global market [Summary] => The Department of Agriculture (DA) has called for a level playing field for the country’s agricultural products to stand a chance to survive in the global market.
During a recent World Trade Organization (WTO) conference in Geneva, Agriculture Undersecretary Arsenio Balisacan said that unless other countries stop their "trade-distorting tactics," the Philippines will most likely lag behind its neighbors not only in Asia, but other countries throughout the world.
[DatePublished] => 2001-04-01 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1203478 [AuthorName] => by Rommel Ynion [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) ) )
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By Rocel Felix | February 17, 2003 - 12:00am
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By Rocel Felix | January 22, 2003 - 12:00am
By by Rommel Ynion | April 1, 2001 - 12:00am
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