Tuesday, September 14, 2004
Big Agusan Sur area to be planted to high-value crops
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PROSPERIDAD, Agusan del Sur – Agusan del Sur, the acknowledged food basket of the Caraga Region, is planning to develop one-million hectares of agricultural land into a plantation for high-value crops and fruit trees.
Chris Lindo, executive chief of staff of Agusan del Sur Gov. Adolph Edward Plaza, said that the entire provincial government machinery and its resources are now focused on developing the agricultural potentials of Agusan del Sur, the biggest province of Caraga Region in terms of land area and population.
"This is to keep up with the official directives of Governor Plaza to make agriculture and education as the top priorities of his agenda in his three-year governance," Lindo told the Manila Bulletin.
Nearly 47 percent of Caraga Region’s land area of 2,542,976 hectares is the territory of Agusan del Sur whose geographical terrain is composed of huge valleys ideal for tree farming, fruit-tree plantation and plantation for high-value crops.
The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) in Caraga Region, meanwhile, is determined to make the province not only as a timber corridor but as a center of wood processing facilities.
"We will make use of the full potentials of Agusan del Sur which will be enjoyed not only by future generations but by the present one as well," Lindo said.
Big mining firms have expressed interest in exploiting rich gold-mining areas of the province, it was learned.
Big wood foreign firms are likewise interested in establishing huge tree plantations in Agusan del Sur and in developing large tract of lands into palm-oil plantations by Malaysian companies.
GIL M. ABARICO, September 12, 2004, Manila Bulletin
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Chris Lindo, executive chief of staff of Agusan del Sur Gov. Adolph Edward Plaza, said that the entire provincial government machinery and its resources are now focused on developing the agricultural potentials of Agusan del Sur, the biggest province of Caraga Region in terms of land area and population.
"This is to keep up with the official directives of Governor Plaza to make agriculture and education as the top priorities of his agenda in his three-year governance," Lindo told the Manila Bulletin.
Nearly 47 percent of Caraga Region’s land area of 2,542,976 hectares is the territory of Agusan del Sur whose geographical terrain is composed of huge valleys ideal for tree farming, fruit-tree plantation and plantation for high-value crops.
The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) in Caraga Region, meanwhile, is determined to make the province not only as a timber corridor but as a center of wood processing facilities.
"We will make use of the full potentials of Agusan del Sur which will be enjoyed not only by future generations but by the present one as well," Lindo said.
Big mining firms have expressed interest in exploiting rich gold-mining areas of the province, it was learned.
Big wood foreign firms are likewise interested in establishing huge tree plantations in Agusan del Sur and in developing large tract of lands into palm-oil plantations by Malaysian companies.
GIL M. ABARICO, September 12, 2004, Manila Bulletin
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