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Province of Bataan - Archived News

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Cheaper electricity in Bataan seen

• Source: http://www.mb.com.ph/articles/332939/cheaper-electricity-bataan-seen
• By: MAR T. SUPNAD
• September 02, 2011

MARIVELES, Bataan — Bataeños and investors in the province are looking forward to cheaper electricity rates once the construction of the 600-megaWatt (mW) GN power plant which is expected to be completed and made operational next year.

Governor Enrique “Tet” Garcia, one of the proponents of the GN power plant, said electricity will soon be offered at a price cheaper by 30 to 40 percent than present power rates being charged.

Bataan 2nd District Rep. Abet S. Garcia and Freeport Area of Bataan (FAB) Chairman and Administrator Deogracias G. P. Custodio relayed this information to Business Processing Association of the Philippines (BPAP) officers Thursday.

The two officials met with BPAP Executive Director for External Affairs Martin Crisostomo and BPAP Executive Director Gigi Virata.

“Gov. Garcia had personally went a number of times to China to convince the GN power plant management to put up the coal-fired power plant here and one of his request was to have a cheaper power supply of electricity here,” said Rep. Garcia.

In its website, the equity for Mariveles Station (GN power Project) will be funded by Sithe Global and Denham Capital Management ("Denham"). The Engineering, Procurement and Construction counterparty is CNEEC (China).

GN power said that its regulatory framework is investor-friendly and transparent, and low current per capita electricity consumption combined with robust economic growth should ensure moderate to high- demand growth.

The Mariveles Project is expected to have the lowest marginal operating cost of any coal project on the grid when completed by year 2012.

It will provide significant benefits to the local community by reducing electricity costs, as well as providing jobs and substantial economic stimulus.

With this bit of good news for investors in Bataan, economic development in Camaya Coast is entering a new and promising phase, he said.

Dubbed the “Boracay of Bataan,” Camaya Coast President Goody Ilagan said the beautification of the beaches, hotel and resort in the area is being rushed.

Garcia and Mayor Jesse Concepcion have been promoting the beauty and unique environment of Camaya Coast being located in this industrial town.

Only recently, Engr. Jose Utrillo, president of the Concord Pacific and Investment Holdings, a US-based multi-national company engaged in garbage-fueled power plants and International seaports, sought audience with Custodio to express interest in putting up an International Seaport in this town.

Agri project to benefit over 13,000 farmers in Bataan

• Source: http://www.sunstar.com.ph/breaking-news/2011/09/01/agri-project-benefit-over-13000-farmers-bataan-176662
• By: Anthony Bayarong
• September 01, 2011

SOME 13,772 farmers from Bataan province will benefit from a project jointly initiated by the Department of Agriculture (DA), Department of Agrarian reform (DAR) and the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR).

A 3,970-hectare agricultural and forestry area in Orion town was chosen to pioneer a local agro-enterprise in the province.

DENR will distribute seedlings of Atis, Guyabano, Mango, Cacao, Rambutan, Coffee Arabica and Macadamia while DA will conduct capability building training on organic farming and give out vegetable seeds.

DAR, for its part, will hold lectures ranging from land tenure improvement to agrarian justice delivery.

Eden Ponio, DAR Regional Support Services Division chief agrarian reform officer, explained that the local convergence agro-enterprise cluster site project seeks to stimulate economic activity in the countryside and support the Aquino administration’s National Greening Program.

It was conceived through the enhanced National Convergence Initiative (NCI) issued by secretaries Proceso Alcala of DA, Virgilio Delos Reyes of DAR and Ramon Paje of DENR last year.

Ponio explained that the three agencies will soon identify more convergence areas in the province in the coming months.

Orion chosen as pioneer DA-DAR-DENR convergence site in Bataan

• Source: http://www.pia.gov.ph/?m=7&r=R03&id=51676&y=2011&mo=08
• By: Carlo Lorenzo J. Datu
• August 31, 2011

ORION, Bataan- The Department of Agriculture (DA), Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR), and Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) has chosen a 3,970.86 hectare agricultural forestry area in the municipality of Orion as their pioneer local convergence agro-enterprise cluster site in Bataan.

DAR Regional Support Services Division chief agrarian reform officer Eden Ponio disclosed that the convergence site covers four agrarian reform community barangays and 19 non-agrarian reform community barangays with a total of 13,772 farmer beneficiaries.

DENR will distribute seedlings of atis, guyabano, mango, cacao, rambutan, coffee arabica, and macadamia to the convergence grantees while DA will conduct capability building trainings on organic farming and give out vegetable seeds.

DAR, on the other hand, shall hold lectures on a number of topics ranging from land tenure improvement to agrarian justice delivery.

Ponio explained that the local convergence agro-enterprise cluster site project seeks to stimulate economic activity in the countryside and support the Aquino administration’s National Greening Program.

It was conceived through the enhanced National Convergence Initiative (NCI) issued by secretaries Proceso Alcala of DA, Virgilio Delos Reyes of DAR, and Ramon Paje of DENR last year.

Ponio said the enhanced NCI promotes a framework of sustainable agriculture and rural development that integrates the people, their economy and their environment; optimizes resources and creates substantial effect in the short-term; makes possible model-building across ecosystems, production systems and rural poverty sectors/small producers in the long-term; defines clear mechanisms for harmonization and complementarity among the three rural development agencies to avoid conflicting and overlapping policies that slows the implementation of programs and projects on the ground; and give local government units a more pro-active role in identifying and implementing convergence initiatives at the local level.

The three agencies will soon identify more convergence areas in the province in the coming months.

Bataan locator ups capital stock

• Source: http://mb.com.ph/articles/332478/baguio-holiday-set-september-1
• By: MAR T. SUPNAD
• August 29, 2011-www.mb.com.ph

FREEPORT AREA OF BATAAN, Philippines — A prominent locator in the Freeport Area of Bataan (FAB) recently increased its capital stock, signifying an upward trend in doing business at the FAB barely a year after it became operational. D. I. Dawn Patrol Manufacturing Corp. (DIDPMC) increased its capital stock from P10 million to almost P100 million, spelling additional investments in the FAB.

The rise in the company’s stock indicates the company’s run on additional proceeds to invest in projects or machinery that will increase corporate profits and efficiency.

Housewives grow organic vegetables

• Source: http://www.mb.com.ph/articles/332369/2-rhbs-fall-bataan
• By: MAR T. SUPNAD
• August 28, 2011-www.mb.com.ph

BALANGA CITY, Philippines — More than two weeks after the military declared Bataan as insurgency-free, two suspected members of the Rebolusyonaryong Hukbong Bayan (RHB) were arrested by the military and police in an operation in Samal town.

Senior Superintendent Arnold D. Gunnacao, Bataan police director, said the joint police and army operation led to the arrest of Rufino Pascual, alias “Pidiong,” of Barangay Imelda, Samal, and Salvador Dadural, alias “Ka Bill,” “Jomell,” and “Buddy,” of Barangay San Juan, also in Samal.

Supt. Allan Macapagal, who led the police team, said they had to disarm Dadural who had in his possession a .38-caliber pistol loaded with five bullets.

Gunnacao said that upon further verification of records, it was found that Pascual is also wanted for murder in the shooting-death of a certain Jeperson Manalili.

Housewives grow organic vegetables

• Source: http://www.pia.gov.ph/?m=1&t=1&id=51228
• By: Rebecca Grace S. David
• August 27, 2011-www.pia.gov.ph

BALANGA CITY, Bataan- Three years ago, some 25 housewives from barangay Cataning organized themselves into the KAANIB (Kasama Ani sa Barangay).

Since idle homelots in subdivisions in the barangay become garbage dumping areas, the group decided to borrow these lots for them to work on.

But first they have to be equipped with the necessary skill to plant organic vegetables. Vegetable experts from the Department of Agriculture Regional Office’s High Value Commercial Crops Program (HVCC) gave them a hands-on training on veggie planting.

A 600 sq meter lot served as their experimental plot. The Balanga City Agricultural Office gave them plastic mulch and organic fertilizer in this initial trial. They planted eggplants, tomatoes, siling labuyo, siling berde, pipino, okra, and ampalaya. Along the perimeter fence, they planted papaya and ube.

From the training, they learned to produce their own organic insecticide. They fermented for a week the mixture of gin, ginger, kakawati, sili, garlic, neem tree leaves, onions, and sugar. Another concoction is the foliar spray made from the mixture of sugar, gin and gills, entrails, and guts of fishes.

KAANIB president Zenaida Tomas enthused that the housewives have earned as much as P3,000 from the sales of their harvest. Three housewives cultivate one vegetable bed. This way, all of them have some produce to sell.

The group has already borrowed 2,000 sq m of idle subdivision lots which they transformed into beds of organic vegetables.

Backyard planting of organic vegetables not only made the housewives make use of their time productively but also provided them with additional income DA Information officer Jun Espiritu added.