COFGA’s application for accreditation from the Sangguniang Panlalawigan was finally approved during its regular session last February 11, 2008, this according to Mr. Barimbao, our Vice-President.
Details will follow as soon as I get a complete and thorough information from him when we will meet on our regular monthly meeting on the second Saturday of March.
Please keep posted.
I’d like to call on all regular and active members to attend our monthly meeting on January 12, 2008, a Saturday. This will be the last regular meeting for the fiscal year.
Again, your attendance is very important as it will make our association more cohesive and we shall band together as every one of us can only make it strong.
I hope to see you guys there.
The set of officers and Board members for 2007 were successfully inducted to office during our first Christmas party in December 14, 2007 at the DA compound.
Taking the place of Regional Director Lecciones, was Dr. Eduardo Alama, the Regional Technical Director as the inducting officer.
The COFGA officers who took the oath of office were the following: Rogelio Moreno, President; Momong Marimbao, Vice President; Mar Carloman, Treasurer; Vin Jayme, Auditor; Lea Villegas, Secretary; Nilo Villaflor and Jorge Matig-a, PROs.
The Board members who were also inducted were Gabe Deligero, Desiderio Benitez, Rudy Monleon, Pompee Bolivar and Jorge D. Ocaña, this author.
Congratulations!
December 14 was a red-letter day for COFGA as it marked its first Christmas party since its founding over a year ago in September 2006.
Although some were not able to come due to some reasons, the affair was nonetheless a resounding success with the whole set of inductees including the members of the Board and officers were in full force.
Leading the attendees were Mr. President himself and other officers including Lea Villegas, Nilo Villaflor, Vin Jayme, Mar Carloman, Jorge Matig-a, and Mr. Veep Momong Marimbao who gladly took the challenge to be the Master of the Ceremonies and he did it effectively.
Among the regular members who attended the party were the Board members Gabe Deligero, Desiderio Benitez, Rudy Monleon, and this author. Read the rest of this entry »
You might be wondering what event is OrganiChristmas 2007.
Of course, this is a major event happening soon, at least within the COFGA circle. I said major event because this is how it should be treated.
Okay, keep reading so that you will know what is this all about.
I think everyone already knew that we’ll be having our first Christmas party this year. In this regard, I was thinking that this event shouldn’t be just another Christmas party happening somewhere else. It should be a bit different from other Christmas parties.
Due to some issues raised by some members as of late, the original venue that the group had concurred during the previous meeting had been changed.
So instead of Mulao (Compostela), the venue shall be the usual meeting place at the DA compound. However, since Dr. Dabucol’s office can no longer hold the growing number of attendees in recent months, exact venue shall be either the chapel or the MPH (multipurpose hall) in order to accommodate all of us more comfortably.
So I’d like to reiterate that our next meeting will no longer be held in Mulao. The date remains the same, (Saturday, November 17) however.
Agenda include our upcoming Christmas Party and General Assembly Meeting and other important matters.
I hope everyone will take note of this update and I hope to see you there! If you have issues regarding this matter and other issues regarding COFGA in particular, please contact me at 261-9074 or 0927-4584490.
I’d like to call on all our members to attain our regular monthly meeting this Saturday, October 13, 2007 at Dr. Dabucol’s office inside the Department of Agriculture Regional Headquarters Unit Region 7 compound along M. Velez St., Guadalupe, Cebu City.
There are a lot of important matters to be discussed, among which is the result of our application for accreditation to the Sanggunian Panlalawigan. Another agendum hopefully to be discussed is our upcoming major event this December 2007, the General Assembly Meeting.
I hope to see you all there and continue support our organization.
It was over five months ago when we had our first trip to Mulao, Compostela. On that trip, we took a survey of the prospective site for our demo farm on organic farming. And it was the height of dry season and the searing heat of the sun baked the soil and caused shallow-rooted plants to wilt. A sight remisniscent of a great drought during the early 80’s.
Nonetheless, I was impressed and others seemed impressed too. Not by the wilting plants and the cracking topsoil now heavily dessicated as a result of intense heat that scorched everything on earth. However, as a farmer, I can tell if the soil is rich in essential nutrients needed for the crops to grow well, judging on the kind of weeds growing in it. So I readily concluded that Mulao could be a great site for our demo farm.
On September 8, a Saturday, we had the chance to visit Mulao, Compostela again. This was our second trip to Mulao in over five months.
On this trip, all officers and members of the Board except for Mr. Marimbao, joined us. Those who went with us included Mr. President himself, Boy Moreno, Lea Villegas, Nilo Villaflor, Vin Jayme, Gabe Deligero, Jorge Matig-a, Rudy Monleon, Desiderio Benitez, Mar Carloman, this author, plus the two prospective Trustee candidates Douglas Torefil and Artemiano Altamira (one as a replacement and another as an addition to the current set).
How many of us know about plantain? Probably most of us Filipinos don’t know about plantain. But quite ironically, this is the very staple food that some of us eat as a substitute to rice.
Yes, plantain is a type of banana that we use for cooking. To most Filipinos, we call the cooking type of banana as saba and indeed in Filipino lexicon, there’s no other term for the cooking banana but saba.
In Cebu, we have two types of plantain that we commonly grow in our farm and in our backyard. These are the sab-a and cardaba.
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