Tag: oversupply

INCREASE BIOFUEL CONTENT IN DIESEL – GATCHALIAN

Post author By Yna Sipelimo
Post date October 24, 2019
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Senator Win Gatchalian is urging the Department of Energy (DOE) to thoroughly study the proposal to increase biofuel content in diesel to help absorb the oversupply in the country’s copra industry. During the recent hearing on the DOE’s proposed ₱2.3 billion budget for 2020, Gatchalian called on Energy Secretary Alfonso Cusi to immediately convene the […]

Tags biofuel content, copra industry, DA, diesel, DOE, Energy Secretary Alfoso Cusi, National Biofuels Board, oversupply, Senator Gatchalian

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USE OUR ‘KOKOTES,’ BUY AND USE EXCESS VEGGIE SUPPLY FOR SOCIAL PROGRAMS – PIMENTEL TO GOV’T AGENCIES

Post author By Hazel Chua
Post date January 15, 2019
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Reacting to news reports that there was an oversupply resulting in falling prices of vegetables in Benguet and other areas in the Cordilleras, Senator Koko Pimentel III has proposed a “creative solution to this welcome dilemma” through the Department of Agriculture’s (DA) purchase of the excess harvest and distributing them to agencies that have supplemental […]

Tags Agriculture, Benguet, DA, food aid, oversupply, Senator Pimentel, social programs, vegetable harvest