Breaking News as of June 2010
Loren: Expanded Senior Citizens Act now ready for full implementation
Senator Loren Legarda hails the completion of the Implementing Rules and Regulation (IRR) for the recently passed Expanded Senior Citizen Law.
June 22, 2010
Loren asks DA for results of climate change adaptaion campaign to avert La Niña destruction
Senate Agriculture and Food Committee Chairperson Loren Legarda asked the Department of Agriculture (DA) for updates on the progress of the installation of rainwater harvesting systems in typhoon and flood prone agricultural areas in the country. The lady senator said that she expects acceptable climate change adaptation and risk reduction measures have been put in place for the past semester by concerned government agencies so that we will not experience the same devastation we had all over the country last year. She said that rainwater harvesting is one of the strategic solutions we should have put in place to avert destruction and to ensure the success of our food security efforts. More technologies such as flood-tolerant crop varieties should be ready for the famers—especially impoverished farmers—to access and quick-loan facilitation to livestock producers for sturdy animal housing should have been extended in preparation for La Niña.
June 10, 2010
