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==[[Bohol News]]==
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'''PDEA agent cleared of illegal drug charges'''
'''DA-7 Issues New Pest Alert'''
*Source: http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/180673/pdea-agent-cleared-of-illegal-drug-charges
*Source: http://www.mb.com.ph/articles/357909/da7-issues-new-pest-alert
*By: CHITO O. ARAGON
*By: PHOEBE JEN INDINO
*''April 22, 2012''
*''April 24, 2012''


An anti-narcotics agent who was arrested last year in Tagbilaran City, Bohol, was acquitted of drug charges in court.
VALENCIA, Bohol — The Department of Agriculture (DA)’s office in Region 7 recently announced that a certain new pest – lygaeid - is threatening the rice granary of Central Visayas. However, Bert Barrion, a doctor of entomology with the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) points out that said pest which was initially called a "rice grain bug” is not really new at all.


Intelligence officer Steven Valles, who was previously assigned at the Cebu City-based Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency in Central Visayas (PDEA-7), was released from jail  on Friday.
Barrion explained that lygaeid is an ordinary bug that feeds on legumes but has changed its host to rice damaging several rice fields in the provinces of Camarines Sur, Masbate, Southern Leyte, Zamboanga Sur, Surigao Norte and Agusan Norte and this province.


In his decision, Regional Trial Court Judge Suzeco Arcamo said there were several inconsistencies in the arresting officers’ testimonies and in the chain of custody of evidence. The judge said the prosecution also failed to establish that a buy-bust operation really took place.
The DA here has named it as the latest pest believed to have been transmitted through irrigation canals. Brown spots on rice grains are a sign of the bug’s infestation.


After his acquittal, Valles will be assigned to the administrative office of the PDEA-7, said Jessie Tabanao, information officer of PDEA-7.
Lygaeid bugs are smaller than rice bugs, are elongated in shape, with a distinct odor, and with bigger front legs making it more of a crawler than a flyer.


Valles was detained  for eight months after his arrest by members of the Bohol Provincial Intelligence Branch.
Said bug is also grain-sucking and panicle-eating, making it a potential threat to the vast rice areas of Bohol. It attacks the panicles at its reproductive stage.


Seized during the operation was P100,000 worth of shabu.
The bug which sports a dirty-brown color has reportedly affected 16 hectares of farm lands in the municipalities of Dimiao, Garcia- Hernandez, Batuan and this town which altogether covers 33 percent of total irrigated and rain-fed rice areas in Bohol.


PDEA-7 earlier cleared Valles in its administrative investigation.
Bert Castillo, Chief of the Regional Crop Protection Center (RCPC), said the diversification of host could be caused by the environment and climate change. Since it is a new pest in rice, its biological and ecological management has yet to be observed, he said.
 
Meanwhile, DA 7 Regional Director Leo Cañeda said the DA is coordinating with concerned local government units here in implementing a quick response scheme by developing a biological protocol aimed at preventing the spread of the pest.
 
Immediate remedy requires spraying plants with appropriate insecticides and continuous pest management in affected areas, said Castillo.


==Bohol Zip Codes==
==Bohol Zip Codes==
Jesz143
43,102

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