RDCom-Mindanao Tackles Rice and Other Critical Issues
The Regional Development Committee (RDCom) for Mindanao of the NEDA Board convened at the Marco Polo Hotel, Davao City last August 14, 2008, to discuss critical issues and challenges of Mindanao. The Mindanao cluster is one of the 3 island clusters of NEDA-Board RDCom. The other two are for Luzon and the Visayas. This was revealed by RDC-Com Mindanao Secretary and NEDA XI Regional Director Nicasio Angelo J. Agustin who also said that the meeting was the Mindanao cluster’s 8th since it was created by virtue of Executive Order 257 issued by President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo on December 15, 2003. He said it is also the 2nd since RDC XI Chair and Mindanao Business Council President Vicente T. Lao was elected Mindanao Representative to the RD Com in May this year.
Director Agustin said that the Committee tackled the Mindanao rice situation, the adverse implications of the Cabotage law on agricultural and industrial development of Mindanao, the long delays in the processing and issuance of the new machine-readable passports, the need to rationalize the issuance of mining permits with other regional priorities, such as forestry development, agricultural conversion, and biodiversity, and the stringent DOE guidelines in the provision of financial benefits to communities hosting power generation projects, among others.
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