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                    [ArticleID] => 1366313
                    [Title] => Ex-agri chief asks Sandigan to dismiss plunder case
                    [Summary] => 

Former Agriculture Secretary Luis Ramon “Cito” Lorenzo Jr. has asked the Sandiganbayan to dismiss the plunder case against him in connection with the P728-million fertilizer fund scam.

[DatePublished] => 2014-09-07 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1673868 [AuthorName] => Reinir Padua [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1264752 [Title] => Swine scam: Sandigan orders arrest of ex-DA chief [Summary] =>

Former agriculture secretary Luis “Cito” Lorenzo Jr. and three others were ordered arrested yesterday for their alleged role in the anomalous implementation of a swine program in 2004.

[DatePublished] => 2013-12-06 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097363 [AuthorName] => Michael Punongbayan [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => http://imageshack.us/a/img17/9058/hfsr.jpg ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 987351 [Title] => Graft raps filed vs ex-DA chief [Summary] =>

Graft charges were ordered filed yesterday against former agriculture secretary Luis Ramon “Cito” Lorenzo Jr. and officials of the state-owned firm Quedan and Rural Credit Guarantee (Quedancor) over a swine program in 2004.

[DatePublished] => 2013-07-19 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097363 [AuthorName] => Michael Punongbayan [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => http://imageshack.us/a/img827/3061/5v9h.jpg ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 703951 [Title] => Garcia plunder case justice to handle fertilizer fund scam [Summary] =>

The P728-million plunder case against former agriculture secretary Luis Lorenzo Jr. and former undersecretary Jocelyn “Joc-Joc” Bolante has landed in the same Sandiganbayan court handling the controversial plunder case against former military comptroller Carlos Garcia.

[DatePublished] => 2011-07-09 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097363 [AuthorName] => Michael Punongbayan [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 618623 [Title] => From the badminton court to the altar [Summary] =>

Angelu de Leon and Lorenzo ‘Wowie’ Rivera - they are friends who fell in love and the whole thing blossomed on the badminton court.

[DatePublished] => 2010-10-08 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134227 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1697794 [AuthorName] => Ricky Lo [SectionName] => Entertainment [SectionUrl] => entertainment [URL] => http://img63.imageshack.us/img63/1162/ent1thumbk.jpg ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 533755 [Title] => Wrong focus on rice [Summary] =>

Why haven’t we Filipinos extricated ourselves from decades of grinding poverty? Whose fault is it, the government’s, the people’s, or the farmers who till our lands?

[DatePublished] => 2009-12-20 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1452304 [AuthorName] => Leandro V. Coronel [SectionName] => Agriculture [SectionUrl] => agriculture [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 427568 [Title] => Fertilizer probe to include DA executive's killing [Summary] =>

The Senate Blue Ribbon committee will include another murder case in its investigation into the fertilizer fund scam.

[DatePublished] => 2008-12-30 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804901 [AuthorName] => Aurea Calica [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 265065 [Title] => Davao City taps LBP for P900-M dev’t program [Summary] => The Land Bank of the Philippines (LBP) is being tapped by the local government of Davao City for a proposed P900-million development program.

Included in the proposed development program is the relocation of informal settlers occupying government and other prime lands, establishment of a modern drainage system, establishment of a synchronized traffic system, and the establishment of a circumferential road network with trade, foreign investments and tourism in mind.
[DatePublished] => 2004-09-17 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097672 [AuthorName] => Ted P. Torres [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 264470 [Title] => Growing, growing, growing [Summary] => Agriculture is consistently a vigorous contributor to the country’s gross national products (GNP). Lately, it has become much stronger. The last two years under the watch of former Agriculture Secretary Luis P. Lorenzo Jr. recorded a growth rate of 4.59 percent in 2002 and 3.77 percent in 2003. This year promises to be even better as the first quarter recorded 8.2 percent, the highest growth in 15 years.

At least three million of the target six million to 10 million jobs in the next six years are expected to come from agriculture and fisheries.
[DatePublished] => 2004-09-12 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1665308 [AuthorName] => Ramon Ma. Epino [SectionName] => Agriculture [SectionUrl] => agriculture [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 259130 [Title] => Cordillera farmers to get access to cheap loans [Summary] => The European Commission (EC) and the Department of Agriculture (DA) are jointly setting up a trust fund that will provide upland farmers in the Cordillera region with low-interest loans to bankroll agriculture-related projects.

A memorandum of agreement signed yesterday by the EC and the DA provides for the establishment of a capacity building trust fund (CBTF) to ensure that indigenous people of the upland areas have continued access to financial resources required to finance their agro-based enterprises.
[DatePublished] => 2004-07-28 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1704647 [AuthorName] => Rocel Felix [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) ) )
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