3 Bukidnon farmers win ‘Gawad Saka’ in Region 10

MALAYBALAY CITY (Bukidnon News/07 December) Three farmers from Bukidnon who practiced integrated farming won in the regional selection for the Department of Agriculture’s ‘Gawad Saka,’ according to the Provincial Agriculture Office.

DAR re-installs farmers in Ocaya Ranch in Maramag

MALAYBALAY CITY – (Bukidnon News/04 December) The Department of Agrarian Reform in South Bukidnon re-installed farmer beneficiaries in a portion of the Ocaya Ranch in Brgy. Kuya, Maramag, Bukidnon, according to a press release by Task Force Mapalad, the group assisting the farmers.

Bukidnon SP to pass organic agriculture code

MALAYBALAY CITY(Bukidnon News Dispatch / 21 November 2011) – The provincial board of Bukidnon is poised to pass its Organic Agriculture Act of Bukidnon 2011, providing for the local government to mainstream organic agriculture as the main agriculture practice in the province, according to the draft of the proposed ordinance sponsored by board member Ranulfo [...]

Korean researcher eyes Bukidnon as a ‘honey paradise’

MALAYBALAY CITY – [Bukidnon News Dispatch / 04 November 2011) Lee Jong Hyuk, a Korean volunteer engaged in research in the honey bee industry has opened a demo farm in the site of the defunct Bukidnon Resources Co. Inc. (BRCI) in Dicklum, Manolo Fortich, Bukidnon to help boost the province’s honey bee industry.

Bukidnon task force to probe banana disease – Quimba

MALAYBALAY CITY  (Bukidnon News/03 November) The Provincial Agriculture Office has composed a fact-finding team to probe reports that a fungal disease has infected about a thousand hectares of banana plantations in the province, Engr. Alson Quimba, provincial agriculturist said Thursday. Quimba said representatives from the PAO, the DA Regional Banana Task Force, and the Central [...]

Alcala on P30M NIA organic fertilizer project: ‘reorient’ only

VALENCIA CITY (Bukidnon News/24 October) – Agriculture Sec. Proceso Alcala has approved the Department of Agriculture 10’s recommendations to withdraw and replace substandard organic fertilizers and re-orient the bids and awards committee officials behind the questionable National Irrigation Administration’s P30-million bio-organic fertilizer subsidy program.

Bukidnon peasants in march vs. landlessness: stop land conversions in Bukidnon

MALAYBALAY CITY (Bukidnon News/20 October) –One of the biggest threats to farmers in Bukidnon is the issue of the continuing conversions of rice and corn farms to agricultural-industrial plantations, Danilo Menente, Kasama-Bukidnon chairperson told this reporter via telephone Thursday.

Bukidnon, MisOr. peasants to march for ‘genuine agrarian reform, against rights abuses

MALAYBALAY CITY (Bukidnon News Dispatch/13 October) Some 10,000 peasants from Bukidnon and Misamis Oriental are expected to march from Bukidon and Misamis Oriental from October 19 to 21 and converge in Cagayan de Oro City to drumbeat their demand for genuine agrarian reform in Northern Mindanao, organizers said in a statement emailed to Bukidnon News [...]

Sumilao farmers: marching protesters of the past; today’s agri-entrepreneurs

SAN VICENTE, Sumilao, Bukidnon (Bukidnon News Dispatch/10 October) Every day, Sumilao farmer Wenefrido San-ajan, 39, wakes up at 4a.m. and goes straight to his farm. Jun-jun as he is called by neighbors, tills almost a hectare of corn farm. But he said since he started learning about vegetable gardening in 2008, he has changed his [...]

Malaybalay’s Social Action Center pilots 2 villages in leadership drive

MALAYBALAY CITY – (Bukidnon News Dispatch/07 October) To address poverty and lack of livelihood opportunities at the village level, the church has to do its role in social action. In Bukidnon, the Diocese of Malaybalay has changed tack. Before organizing livelihood projects, they are now engaging the communities in a community leadership drive using ‘model [...]

NCIP revokes compliance certificate issued to Bukidnon ranch occupant

MALAYBALAY CITY (Bukidnon News / 30 Sept) – The National Commission on Indigenous Peoples, sitting en banc, decided to annul the compliance certificate it issued to a ranch operator in Maramag, Bukidnon, reversing a verdict it made more than three years ago, according to a copy of its decision furnished by petitioner Panalsalan Dagumbaan Tribal [...]

Capitol intensifies ‘Greening’ Program

MALAYBALAY CITY(Bukidnon News Dispatch/ 29 Sept.) — About 400 Benguet Pines and 1,300 Mahogany Seedlings were dispersed to be planted, mobilizing majority of the provincial government employees of Bukidnon for the tree-planting activity last September 23 at the Provincial Tree Park.

Rehab of Rio Grande de Mindanao, “a high priority, high impact” project

MALAYBALAY CITY (Bukidnon News Dispatch/ 29 Sept)– The Rehabilitation of the Rio Grande de Mindanao is one of the 10 high priority and high impact proposed projects as presented in the Mindanao River Basin Integrated Management and Development Plan, a copy of which was obtained by Bukidnon News. In the last chapter of the 16-chapter [...]

SPECIAL REPORT: Tribal leaders to withhold support for Pulangui V

By Carrell C. Magno and Laurie Ailynne M. Benito Bangsamoro Center for Just Peace (via Bukidnon News with permission from VERA Files) Leaders of indigenous communities in Bukidnon have refused to engage in any discussion over the planned construction of the Pulangui V Hydroelectric Project (HEP), until dam proponents submit a cultural impact assessment that [...]

Bukidnon, NorthMin organic rice country by 2013, says expert

SINAYAWAN, Valencia City (Bukidnon News Dispatch/28 Sept)— An organic rice expert from the National Irrigation Administration predicted that Bukidnon and the rest of Northern Mindanao’s rice lands will be organic by 2013 with a program boosting the demonstration of organic rice farming throughout the region. Ildefonso Natingga Jr, NIA-10 organic rice demonstration officer, told Bukidnon [...]