AGRICULTURE

COTABATO CITY - A modern technology in farming has been introduced to corn farmers in Datu Odin Sinsuat, Maguindanao.Wil de Vera, chief executive officer of Precision Agriculture Management and Grains Development (PAMGD), said the new technology will provide corn farmers the right farming techniques that will also save them time and money.Earlier, MAMGD andMoro Gulf Sterling Products Development Corporation, headed by Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) chair Muslimin Sema, forged a memorandum of agreement for the project.

KORONADAL CITY -The Department of Agriculture – Philippine Rural Development Project (DA-PRDP) hasreleased P20 million worth of checks to the South Cotabato provincial government intended for a major cassava project. According to DA 12 Regional Executive Director Amalia Jayag-Datukan, the amount comprised the first and second tranches of the P39.3-million fund intended for the implementation of the Cassava Granules Production and Marketing Project that the provincial government and local stakeholders proposed to the PRDP.