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==[[Southern Leyte News]]==
==[[Southern Leyte News]]==
'''Solon offers scholarship to students taking up Agriculture course'''
'''PNP – Maasin City initially plants 750 mangrove trees'''
*Source: http://www.pia.gov.ph/news/index.php?article=1301329107286
*Source: http://pia.gov.ph/news/index.php?menu=2&webregion=R08&article=1281329199185
*Monday 13th of February 2012
*Tuesday 14th of February 2012
:by Marcelo M. Pedalino
:by Erna S. Gorne




MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte, Feb. 13 (PIA) --  Graduating high school students here and anywhere in the province who belong to the top five of the graduating class were challenged by the province's representative to avail of his scholarship program for the coming school year, 2012-2013.
MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte, Feb 14 (PIA) --- The police here  has already  started planting at least 750 mangrove seedlings to strongly support the nationwide tree planting campaign, in compliance with the President's National Greening Program. 
But one pre-requisite condition should be met, and that is, that the student take up an agriculture course at a government school here in the province, referring to the Southern Leyte State University (SLSU) or the Maasin City College (MCC).
   
According to Aida Morsen Moralde of Cong. Roger Mercado’s district office, there were students in the past who availed of the lawmaker’s initiative, as agriculture was one of the courses listed under the Congressman’s scholarship program.
Superintendent Hector Enage disclosed that each of the 52 organic police officers and staff  in the police station  are required to plant at least six  trees  every month for a year.
So far, however, someone has yet to graduate from this course, as the tendency was to shift to other courses, it was learned.
Enage said earlier this month they were able to plant 500 mangrove trees in Barangay Pasay mangrove in Maasin City in close coordination with the barangay  officials, who also contributed their share of mangrove seedlings to the tree planting.
In a recent meeting with heads of national line agencies, Mercado announced his desire to help graduating students continue college schooling, even as he singled Agriculture as the preferred course to be taken up.
On February 11, Saturday, the Maasin City PNP conducted the second tree planting in Barangay  Manhilo  mangrove area  and planted another 250  seedlings, Enage added.
He appealed on the students to spread the word to those interested to pursue an agriculture degree, especially if he or she belongs to the upper level of the graduating class.
Last month, Mercado rallied concerned stakeholders in his vision of a Southern Leyte province that will become a producer, no longer a consumer, of agriculture products, to reverse the trend nowadays that virtually anything agricultural sold in the market either came from Cebu or Mindanao.
Enage said the will further coordinate with the Department of Agriculture and  barangay councils in the city  for the rest  of the tree planting activities particularly in their need for tree planting materials and planting areas.
The province should be producing these staples so that it can be self-reliant and can even sell to other places of the country, Mercado said.
The tree planting activity of Maasin City Police Station is in consonance with the campaign of Police Director General Nicanor A. Bartolome, chief of the Philippine National Police (PNP) to plant 10 million trees for the same period and to PNoy's call to plant a billion trees to mitigate climate change.(PIA8- Southern Leyte)
During the Agriculture-Tourism summit last month, Mercado had linked up with the regional office of the Department of Agriculture (DA), the people’s organizations, and the Mayors of the different local government units in the province to start mapping a roadmap or blueprint for the province’s full-speed agricultural development. (PIA8-Southern Leyte)


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==Photo Gallery of Southern Leyte, Philippines==
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