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Bio-fertilizer give life to Iloilo farms sans urea - tests

ILOILO CITY -  Bio-fertilizer gives life to farms without urea, tests in Iloilo Province show. Before, Iloilo farmers have to navigate through the delicate balance of soaring urea prices and lost profits as prices of urea fertilizer  shot passed the ceiling since last year. Its supply dropped after the Russo-Ukraine war broke out in February 2022. Though it went down from P3,500 to P1,500 per bag today, its present cost is still higher than before the war at P800 per bag. "Demonstration farms" in Iloilo Province are proving that farm production are bouncing back without urea, Geron Magbanua, senior agriculturist at the provincial agriculture office (PAO) said.  Farmers cooperating with the government research which in turn does so in collaboration with a private comjpany producing fertilizer, "are encouraged by the results of the validation tests"  in Passi City, New Lucena, Dingle, Tigbauan and Oton towns, added Magbanua. He was designated "validator" by ...

Churches and Lady Caycay

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This photo is not mine. Thanks to the uploader. This was the catholic church of Oton, Iloilo before Lady Caycay. Lady Caycay, the tremblor with 8 plus intensity and the only one with a name world wide, crumpled it like a cardboard killing at least one. That was January 1948. The tremblor's epicenter, Hantik, Antique, belonged to the West Panay Fault, a network that wounds through southern Iloilo, Capiz and Aklan, that is only 10 km from the mega dam in Calinog, Iloilo. Our church in Igbaras, Iloilo reputedly the biggest in Iloilo, crumbled completely. The replacement structure which is big enough, can comfortably fit into it. The church of Panay, Capiz was also damaged: its bell fell and sustained a crack (the biggest bell in Asia). The watch tower cum belfry of Jaro Cathedral, Iloilo City, half of it fell to the ground. (It's about the only belfry in the world detached from the church 100 meters away because it was intended foremostly to alert the Guardia Civil of pirates snea...

stupid iloilo city hall

Stupidity knows no bound Ordinary drivers know this simple principle; Iloilo city hall people don't. The latter are supposed to know but they are proving today right before our very eyes how true the saying is that "ignorance is intentional".  Ignorance doesn't happen by accident; it is intended as what Iloilo City Hall does by its intransifence to follow national law and policy.  The officials of Iloilo City, particularly, the "public safety and traffice management office" (PSTMO) have read and heard, seen even, that seizing drivers' licenses for violations collides with national law and policy. No less than the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG), the Land Transportation Office (LTO) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) are one in declaring that issuing citation tickets suffices for apprehending traffic violators. Seizing the drivers' licenses of violators is illegal as that would place the apprehended drivers liable for "driving...