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 ==[[Southern Leyte News]]==
-'''SoLeyte Day Care Workers campaign support to Magna Carta'''
+'''DA - SoLeyte LGU culminates farmers’ classes'''
-*Source: http://pia.gov.ph/?m=7&r=r08&id=67665
+*Source: http://www.pia.gov.ph/?m=1&t=1&id=68037
-*Monday, December 12, 2011
+*Wednesday, December 14, 2011
 :by ES Gorne
-MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte, December 12 (PIA8) -- Some 500 day care workers based in Southern Leyte will join the signature campaign in support of the passing of the Magna Carta for Day Care Workers.
+MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte, Dec 14 (PIA8) -- About 194 farmers graduated today at the Bontoc multi hall from the farmer’s classes initiated by the Provincial Agricultural Services Office of the Southern Leyte provincial government as their counterpart in the multi-million Rice Production Enhancement Project funded from Germany.
-During the quarterly meeting held at the Provincial Social Welfare and Development Office (PSWDO) today, the federation of day care workers’ presidents in 18 municipalities and the city of Maasin have affixed their signatures in support of the campaign for the said magna carta, Southern Leyte Federation President Marivic Amparo revealed.
+All of the 194 farmers beneficiaries came from the five participating municipalities of Bontoc, St. Bernard, Sogod, Libagon, and Malitbog, according to provincial agriculturist Marina Gador in an interview with PIA Southern Leyte.
-According to Amparo, among the benefits they expect from the magna carta are the incentives from the national social welfare and development office particularly for those day care workers who have served at least 5 years and those who are conducting two sessions everyday.
+Gador reported that farmers who completed their classes conducted in different municipalities will culminate in a simple graduation ceremony today.
-While most of the day care workers are paid by their respective barangays for their services at P1,000 per month only, Amparo reported that the day care workers in their municipality in Libagon, Southern Leyte were all absorbed as regular workers in the municipal government.
+The project involves the application of organic fertilizer that will improve the soil fertility thereby increase rice production, she added.
-She hoped to bring the completed signature campaign support documents in time for the last reading by the House committee scheduled at Davao City on May 2012.
+Gador reported that an increase of rice production during the last cropping was noted even with the partial application of the technology by some farmers, who had already undertaken the farmer’s classes.
-Meanwhile, the federation also is coming up with a resolution seeking the intervention of Provincial Governor Damian G. Mercado to discontinue the practice of changing day care workers whenever there is a change of leadership in the barangays. (PIA SoLeyte/esg)
+She, however, hopes the realization of the 15 percent increase of rice production with the project in the second cropping by next year.
+Through the generosity of Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH – Enhancement of Food Security (EFOS) in the Visayas with the funding from the European Union, a grant, amounting to P 8.567 million in support to the Southern Leyte Rice Production Enhancement Project is underway, OIC Provincial Agriculturist Marina Gador explained .
+While the provincial government counterparted with P 931,000, municipal local government units with P95,000, and farmer households gave P385,000 for the rice enhancement project, she said. (ESG-PIA8)
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