NAFC-2nd Quarterly News letter2011 Final - National Agricultural ...

Rubber Plantations
in Luzon?
Rubber is a tree crop usually associated
in nearly typhoon-free Mindanao, so that
when members of the NAFC’s industrial
crop subcommittee of the Committee on
Commercial Crops (CCC) learned that rubber
trees are being farmed in Laguna and Quezon,
they set out to investigate the phenomenon.
Engr. Rolando Rosales, one of the subcommittee’s
members and general manager
of the First Laguna Rubber, shared this
wonderful news to the group, and invited
the members to see the areas.
The sub-committee conducted the site
validation last May 5 in Laguna and Quezon.
The party consisted of representatives from
the Traders Trust International, Latex
Products, King’s Rubber, JDM Agroventures,
CUP, Rubberfields, Inc., CocoaPhil and First
Laguna Rubber, from the private sector
side, and representatives from the Bureau of
Plant Industry, Bureau of Agricultural Research,
Bureau of Agricultural Statistics, and the NAFC.
They learned that the First Laguna Rubber is a
business enterprise that has been engaged in
rubber propagation, planting and marketing
since January 2006. The firm has successfully
covered the provinces of Laguna, Quezon,
Batangas, Cavite, Bulacan, Nueva Ecija, and
the Cagayan Valley, with approximately
700 hectares of rubber plantation.
The party visited two rubber plantations in
Laguna. The first site, located in Brgy.Ilayang,
Butnog, Magdalena, is a five-hectare farm
with 3,000 rubber trees. It was owned by
Atty. Ceriaco Sumaya. The second site, in
Brgy.Layugan, Pagsanjan, was a 2.5 hectare
rubber farm with 2,500 mature rubber trees
owned by Mr. Alex Pactananan.
The rubber plantation visited in Quezon was
a five-hectare farm with 5,000 mature trees,
owned by former Councilor Ernida Reynoso.
The plantations are intercropped with
patola, squash, corn, coconut and cacao.
Engr. Rosales emphasized that top pruning
and double stocking methods are practiced
in the farm to be able to resist typhoons
and strong winds.
First Laguna Rubber has started operating
a rubber processing plant in Brgy. San Luis,
Luisiana in Laguna, which was constructed
and finished last September 2009. The mill
processes rubber cup lumps up to five tons
per day.
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April to June 2011
Grains post production group signs MOA with IRRI
The Philippine Rice Post-Production
Consortium (PRPC) recently entered
into a partnership agreement with the
International Rice Research Institute
(IRRI) for the conduct of collaborative
activities toward the enhancement of
the grains postproduction systems
in the country. The agreement was
sealed during the PRPC’s Executive
Committee meeting held June 9,2011
at the NAFC Conference Hall where the
PRPC presented to Secretary Proceso J.
Alcala its accomplishments over the
past two years. In his response, Sec.
NAFC staff relearns gov’t bidding procedures
Eight NAFC employees attended the
Seminar/Workshop on The Philippine
Bidding Documents and Updates on R.A.
9184, otherwise known as the “Government
Procurement Reform Act,” organized by the
Association of Government Internal Auditors
(AGIA) last April 27 to 29, 2011 at Hotel
Kimberly in Malate, Manila. They joined 102
participants from government agencies,
local government units and universities
nationwide. The three-day event focused
Alcala proposed that the group conduct
a workshop to identify possible PRPCassisted
interventions that will contribute
to the successful implementation of
the DA’s Rice Self-Sufficiency Program.
Picture above shows representatives of
the partners signing the memorandum of
agreement for the partnership: from left,
William Padolina, IRRI’s Deputy Director,
Secretary Alcala and NAFC OIC-Director
Noel Juliano. During the same meeting,
the PRPC members decided to change
the group’s name to Philippine Grains
Postproduction Consortium (PGPC).
on the Philippine Bidding Documents for
the Procurement of Consulting Services,
Goods/Services and Infrastructure Projects.
Seated from left to right in above photo are:
Carmelo Yambao, Shirley Pascua, Serafin
Santos, Diana de los Santos, Carmencita
Begonia, Agapita Agustin, Ceniza Dacumos,
Normita Castillo, and one of the lecturers,
Engr. Angelito Z. Saliendra, State Auditor
V from the Technical Services Office of the
Commission on Audit.