Davao City’s export earner

DAVAO BANANAS. A worker harvests fresh bananas in a farm in Davao City, as the city’s major export continues to be a top gainer despite the current economic crisis.

Who is Norberto Manero, Jr?

April 11, 1985: Edilberto Manero shot dead Fr. Tullio Favali in Tulunan, North Cotabato, while Manero’s armed gang stood by revelling at the sight of the priest’s body.
Earlier that day, the Manero brothers — Edilberto, Norberto Jr., and Elpidio had conspired with a few others to liquidate a number of suspected communist sympathizers. Among those [...]

Anti-aerial spray groups in scare tactics vs. CA judges

After gifting with rotten bananas the Court of Appeals justices who issued an injunction against a Davao City ordinance banning aerial spraying in banana plantations in Davao City, environmentalist groups have resorted to another dirty tactic against the justices.
We hope the justices would be the last persons to go blind due to exposure from [...]

ANTI-AERIAL SPRAY GROUPS HOLD CARAVAN

 After conducting noisy pickets at the Court of Appeals in Cagayan de Oro City and shaming the Justices by gifting them with rotten bananas, groups opposing aeiral spraying in banana plantations have adopted a new trick to gain public sympthy.
The Mamamayan Ayaw sa Aerial Spraying (Maas) and a dozen hundreds supporters from Davao City, Bukidnon [...]

Agriculture not worried by banana farm expansions

RICE PRODUCTION NOT IN PERIL
By ROGER M. BALANZA
The Department of Agriculture is not alarmed by banana farm expansions gobbling up rice farms.
Undersecretary Jesus Emmanuel Paras said in Davao City last week the conversions of rice lands into banana plantations barely affected the overall rice production areas of 1.5 million irrigated rice lands.
Paras said during [...]

Battle over aerial spray ban continues

City Hall unfazed by
CA order vs. aerial ban
 
            The Davao City government is treating as a minor setback a Court of Appeals decision granting preliminary injunction against a city ordinance banning aerial spraying in banana plantations in Davao City.
            City administrator Wendel Avisado said the city government would win against the appeal by the [...]

Dad scores aerial ban lobbyists for dirty tricks

‘Rotten banana’ stunt
doomed aerial spray ban
By ROGER M. BALANZA

            A Davao City councilor yesterday scored local environmentalist groups for publicly shaming Court of Appeals justices following a CA decision that granted a preliminary injunction against a Davao City ordinance banning aerial spraying in banana plantations.
            Councilor Arnolfo Ricardo Cabling, a lawyer, said the insulting act [...]

Philippine bananas to the US market

US speeding up pest risk analysis
 The United States Department of Agriculture has assured Manila of the speedy processing of the pest risk analysis for Philippine bananas, a move that could soon allow the entry of this high-value commodity into the American market and boost the country’s export earnings by $6 million yearly.  
“The Philippines is a [...]

Warning vs. aerial spray ban now taking toll on Davao banana industry

Banana growing company terminates 200 workers
The Department of Trade (DTI) warning about how a Davao City ordinance banning aerial spraying in banana plantations could kill the industry is now slowly starting to rear its ugly head.
Late last month, the giant banana growing company Lapanday Development Corporation (Ladeco) issued walking papers to 200 banana workers, the [...]

HOW TO RAISE A FAMILY OF TWELVE WITH BANANAS

You do not talk to Moises Torrentira, Sr. about aerial spraying in Cavendish banana plantations killing people or sending them to hospitals for respiratory diseases due to exposure from fungicides.            If you do that he would engage you in a debate and present himself, his wife and eleven children as Exhibit No. 1 to dispute [...]