Palm oil growers in Mindanao are optimistic that the production would continue to increase in Mindanao even as the country is still importing oil palm products from nearby Southeast Asian countries.
In a meeting recently held at the Davao del Norte Capitol in Tagum City, C.K. Chang, president of Philippine Palm Oil Development Council, Inc. (PPODCI), said that 10 years ago, the country has only some 20,000 hectares of oil palm trees, but at present, it has already 45,000 hectares of it mostly found in Mindanao.
“But we are still importing oil palm products from Malaysia and Indonesia,” he said
When before, city residents could hear the whirl and hum of the power plant along J.P. Laurel Avenue, today, the Bajada Power Plant (BPP) appears silent and inactive.An official of a multi-national shipping firm and five others are facing charges of possession of illegal drugs for allegedly conspiring to hide 12 bricks of high-grade cocaine in Davao City last December, the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) said on Monday.
The Office of the Solicitor General (OSG) is studying a proposal by the Pilipinas Shell Petroleum Corp. (PSPC) to put up a surety bond to facilitate imports, while a tax dispute is resolved.
