Bacolod holds first Farmers’ Summit
The Bacolod City Government, in coordination with the Highly Urbanized City Agricultural and Fishery Council, will hold tomorrow the first ever Bacolod City Farmers’ Summit at the proposed Bacolod Food Terminal in Barangay Alijis.
The summit, with the theme “Paghili-upod sang Mangunguma kag Gobyerno Lokal sa Padayon nga Pag-uswag sang Agrikultura”, will focus on issues faced by the farmers such as measures to alleviate the effects of the El Niño phenomenon and the use of organic fertilizer.
Mayor Evelio Leonardia saw the need to address the concerns of the farmers particularly with the onset of the long dry season as they may lose their main source of livelihood if problems such as water supply and irrigation are not attended to immediately.
The summit will be attended by Department of Agriculture regional executive director Larry Nacionales and city government officials led by Leonardia, Vice Mayor Jude Thaddeus Sayson, Councilor Alex Paglumotan who chairs the Sangguniang Panlungsod Committee on Agriculture and Fishery, and city agriculturist Atty. Goldwyn Nifras.
