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                    [Title] => Government urged to provide support systems for co-ops
                    [Summary] => The Philippine Cooperative Center (PCC), an umbrella cooperative organization,  is urging government to provide support systems critical to the survival of cooperatives. 


"Current efforts are not enough to address the issues of cooperative movements which is why poverty still stalks members of these organizations, especially in the countryside," said PCC chairman and former Agriculture Secretary Senen Bacani.


He noted that cooperatives nationwide are languishing because of policy and market bottlenecks.


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                    [Title] => BPI, BOC form team to look into onion imports
                    [Summary] => The Bureau of Plant Industry (BPI) and the Bureau of Customs (BOC) will create a team that will look into the alleged discrepancy between authorized onion importations and the volume of onion imports processed by the BOC.


"We have asked the BOC to verify data released by onion growers that supposedly came from the BOC’s records on onion importations. We expect to conduct a joint investigation to thresh out this matter," said BPI director Lealyn A. Ramos.


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                    [Title] => DA chief bans onion importation
                    [Summary] => 

Agriculture Secretary Domingo F. Panganiban has ordered the Bureau of Plant Industry (BPI) to suspend the issuance of import permits for onions to give local farmers a respite from the entry of both legally imported onions, and from those that are smuggled into the country’s porous borders.


"No new permits will be issued until such time that the current stock is consumed," said Panganiban.


He said there are an estimated 11 million bags of onions being stored in temperature-controlled or refrigerated warehouses.


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                    [Title] => Quedancor sets loan generation target at P6.7B
                    [Summary] => The Quedan Rural Credit and Guarantee Corp. (Quedancor) is targeting to release loans worth P6.7 billion this year or 26 percent higher than last year’s P5.3 billion.


"We hope to  be more aggressive in lending this year and we are further intensifying our loan generation mechanisms and zero in on more projects  geared toward improving agricultural productivity,"said  Quedancor president Nelson Buenaflor during the agency’s anniversary celebration yesterday.


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                    [Title] => Lepanto bares P409.5-M loss in 2005
                    [Summary] => Labor problems hounded Lepanto Consolidated Mining Co. last year, resulting in a net loss of P409.532 million in 2005 as the mining firm was constrained from increasing its minerals production.


In a disclosure to the Philippine Stock Exchange (PSE), Lepanto said its gold and silver sales dropped to P1.399 billion from P2.251 billion because of a four-month strike that hampered the company’s operations from June 2 to Sept. 11.


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                    [Title] => DA urged to limit chicken imports
                    [Summary] => Local broiler producers are asking the Department of Agriculture (DA) to limit chicken imports this year to save the industry from imminent collapse.


"Producers are hoping that this year, government will be a bit more cautious in making announcements of chicken importations to avoid what happened in previous years when such activity led to the considerable decline in  farmgate prices of chicken" said Gregorio San Diego, president of  the United Broilers Raisers Association (UBRA).


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                    [Title] => RP aims for rice self-sufficiency in 3 years
                    [Summary] => The Philippines, the world’s biggest rice importer in 2005, plans to spend as much as P15 billion on improving its irrigation systems in order to be self-sufficient in rice production in three years.


The government, which had aimed to make the country self sufficient by 2007 through subsidizing the cost of rice seeds, decided in January to move the target date to 2009 and focus on repairing irrigation systems, Agriculture Secretary Domingo Panganiban said.


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                    [Title] => Virgin coconut oil maker eyes exports to US, Australia
                    [Summary] => CocoArk Inc., maker of the "Wild Country" and "Don Pedro" brands of virgin coconut oil (VCO), is looking to export is products to the United States and Australia by April.


Company president Joey CocoArk is now in the final stages of negotiations with American and Australian firms for the distribution of the two brands in their respective countries. 


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                    [Title] => NFA to bid 350,000-MT initial rice importation
                    [Summary] => The National Food Authority (NFA) will hold a bidding  next month for an initial importation of 350,000 metric tons (MT) of rice.


"We have to position early on because of  the projected tightness in world stocks next year that could considerably raise prices," said NFA Administrator Gregorio Tan Jr. 


Tan noted that the world’s biggest rice exporter, Thailand, temporarily suspended its exports in September-October to secure its domestic requirements.  


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                    [Title] => NFA to bid 350,000-MT initial rice importation
                    [Summary] => The National Food Authority (NFA) will hold a bidding  next month for an initial importation of 350,000 metric tons (MT) of rice.


"We have to position early on because of  the projected tightness in world stocks next year that could considerably raise prices," said NFA Administrator Gregorio Tan Jr. 


Tan noted that the world’s biggest rice exporter, Thailand, temporarily suspended its exports in September-October to secure its domestic requirements.  


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                    [Title] => Government urged to provide support systems for co-ops
                    [Summary] => The Philippine Cooperative Center (PCC), an umbrella cooperative organization,  is urging government to provide support systems critical to the survival of cooperatives. 


"Current efforts are not enough to address the issues of cooperative movements which is why poverty still stalks members of these organizations, especially in the countryside," said PCC chairman and former Agriculture Secretary Senen Bacani.


He noted that cooperatives nationwide are languishing because of policy and market bottlenecks.


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                    [Title] => BPI, BOC form team to look into onion imports
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"We have asked the BOC to verify data released by onion growers that supposedly came from the BOC’s records on onion importations. We expect to conduct a joint investigation to thresh out this matter," said BPI director Lealyn A. Ramos.


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"No new permits will be issued until such time that the current stock is consumed," said Panganiban.


He said there are an estimated 11 million bags of onions being stored in temperature-controlled or refrigerated warehouses.


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                    [Title] => Quedancor sets loan generation target at P6.7B
                    [Summary] => The Quedan Rural Credit and Guarantee Corp. (Quedancor) is targeting to release loans worth P6.7 billion this year or 26 percent higher than last year’s P5.3 billion.


"We hope to  be more aggressive in lending this year and we are further intensifying our loan generation mechanisms and zero in on more projects  geared toward improving agricultural productivity,"said  Quedancor president Nelson Buenaflor during the agency’s anniversary celebration yesterday.


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                    [Title] => Lepanto bares P409.5-M loss in 2005
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In a disclosure to the Philippine Stock Exchange (PSE), Lepanto said its gold and silver sales dropped to P1.399 billion from P2.251 billion because of a four-month strike that hampered the company’s operations from June 2 to Sept. 11.


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                    [Title] => DA urged to limit chicken imports
                    [Summary] => Local broiler producers are asking the Department of Agriculture (DA) to limit chicken imports this year to save the industry from imminent collapse.


"Producers are hoping that this year, government will be a bit more cautious in making announcements of chicken importations to avoid what happened in previous years when such activity led to the considerable decline in  farmgate prices of chicken" said Gregorio San Diego, president of  the United Broilers Raisers Association (UBRA).


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                    [Title] => RP aims for rice self-sufficiency in 3 years
                    [Summary] => The Philippines, the world’s biggest rice importer in 2005, plans to spend as much as P15 billion on improving its irrigation systems in order to be self-sufficient in rice production in three years.


The government, which had aimed to make the country self sufficient by 2007 through subsidizing the cost of rice seeds, decided in January to move the target date to 2009 and focus on repairing irrigation systems, Agriculture Secretary Domingo Panganiban said.


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                    [Title] => Virgin coconut oil maker eyes exports to US, Australia
                    [Summary] => CocoArk Inc., maker of the "Wild Country" and "Don Pedro" brands of virgin coconut oil (VCO), is looking to export is products to the United States and Australia by April.


Company president Joey CocoArk is now in the final stages of negotiations with American and Australian firms for the distribution of the two brands in their respective countries. 


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                    [Title] => NFA to bid 350,000-MT initial rice importation
                    [Summary] => The National Food Authority (NFA) will hold a bidding  next month for an initial importation of 350,000 metric tons (MT) of rice.


"We have to position early on because of  the projected tightness in world stocks next year that could considerably raise prices," said NFA Administrator Gregorio Tan Jr. 


Tan noted that the world’s biggest rice exporter, Thailand, temporarily suspended its exports in September-October to secure its domestic requirements.  


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                    [Title] => NFA to bid 350,000-MT initial rice importation
                    [Summary] => The National Food Authority (NFA) will hold a bidding  next month for an initial importation of 350,000 metric tons (MT) of rice.


"We have to position early on because of  the projected tightness in world stocks next year that could considerably raise prices," said NFA Administrator Gregorio Tan Jr. 


Tan noted that the world’s biggest rice exporter, Thailand, temporarily suspended its exports in September-October to secure its domestic requirements.  


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