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==[[Southern Leyte News]]==
==[[Southern Leyte News]]==
'''NFA pushes for i-Rice consumption in Southern Leyte'''
'''DENR chooses greening sites in Southern Leyte as national model'''
*Source: http://www.pia.gov.ph/?m=1&t=1&id=74294
*Source: http://www.pia.gov.ph/news/index.php?article=1301327983528
*Monday, January 30, 2012
*Wednesday 1st of February 2012
:by  PIA Press Release
:by  Marcelo M. Pedalino




MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte, Jan 30 (PIA) -- The National Food Authority – Southern Leyte Office is encouraging every concerned official throughout Southern Leyte province to support government programs, particularly the iron-fortified rice, known as the “i-Rice”.
MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte, Feb. 1 (PIA) -- The central office of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) was so impressed with the panoramic view of two tree-planting sites here under the National Greening Program (NGP) that these were declared model NGP areas
NFA information officer Elisa E. Almacin in her report disclosed that the agency’s ultimate goal in the “i-Rice” advocacy is to squarely face the problem of micronutrient malnutrition of the populace
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She revealed that micronutrient malnutrition is, “one of the country’s utmost problems because of lack of micronutrients which include iron, iodine, and vitamin A.”
According to Provincial Environment and Natural Resources officer (PENRO) Ricardo Tomol, the NGP sites at barangays Bogo and Laboon, and another at barangay Lunas, caught the attention of the agency’s higher-ups, thus its selection as model sites.
In response to the study which put the Philippines as one of the countries that suffer from nutritional disorder, NFA is emphasizing the importance of “i-rice” to help the country fight this battle towards good nutrition and a well balance diet, Almacin disclosed to PIA-Maasin.
It was learned that the nationwide launching of i-Rice was held last March 2011. It aims to promote the NFA’s program that supports the fortification of products based on Republic Act 8976 or the Philippine Food Fortification Act of 2000
Tomol said the one at barangay Bogo is supported by Cong. Roger Mercado; the one at Laboon, an accredited NGP site is managed by CENRO-Maasin, while the Lunas site is managed by a people’s organization (PO), in which their areas were enrolled as NGP sites as well.
Almacin said that the food department’s main concern is rice, which is the main staple of the country, “we highly advocate the i-Rice program” for your support as an outward extension to the people, referring to the different agencies concerned.
“Health is wealth, let the i-Rice program be part of the daily dietary intake of our people,” she said while hoping that the agencies concerned will be part in disseminating this information drive for the welfare of each one towards a journey for a healthy people in a healthy country,” Almacinbared. (PIA-8/Southern Leyte)
Young Innovators for Sustainable Environment Development Association (YISEDA), the accredited PO based at Lunas, has been active in projects relating to environment conservation and preservation, and they have maintained their site, Tomol added.
Tomol also said that CENRO-San Juan emerged as number one in NGP implementation for the year 2011 in Region 8, having planted its target of 400 hectares from the congressional initiative and another 930 hectares from regular NGP.
For areas under CENRO-Maasin, Tomol said the targets of 930 hectares regular NGP plus 100 hectares from Cong. Mercado were also finished well ahead of time.
The DENR field coverage in Southern Leyte was divided in two, the CENRO-Maasin which covers Maasin city up to Sogod, and CENRO-San Juan, which covers Libagon, the four towns of Panaon island, and the six towns in the pacific area.
For the 2012 NGP targets, Tomol said he has yet to attend a national conference on the subject next month, even as he already had the proposed figures, definitely an increase from 2011 goals.
The NGP is a nationwide massive tree-planting activity spearheaded early last year by President Benigno Aquino III, involving government employees in all levels, including school children, where each individual is given a quota of 10 trees planted per year until 2016.
Overall, the NGP aspires to plant close to two million trees in millions of hectares of timberland areas around the Philippines to mitigate the ill effects of climate change. (PIA8-Southern Leyte)


==Photo Gallery of Southern Leyte, Philippines==
==Photo Gallery of Southern Leyte, Philippines==
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