Acofo: Twist a twisted coil and the smell of chicken dung
IF BY any chance the Tocucan farm-to-market road pushed on with major changes without the concurrence of the PROVINCIAL CARP IMPLMENTING TEAM, then there is a problem.
What I heard is it is the monitoring team, which is the Provincial Carp Coordinating Committee, which coordinated with...
Acofo: 'Tuwid na Daan' in Tocucan, Bontoc Mountain Province
I JUST came from Bontoc, Mountain Province. I enjoyed the long vacation except to know of the brewing problem of a farm-to-market road funded with agrarian reform fund. The two million worth of project as per report from the office – the Department of Agrarian Reform is 55 percent completed....
Acofo: Why not a competitive examination plus honor and service?
PRESTIGE is usually attached to being an iskolar ng bayan, government grantee, scholar or fellow of any name. One earns being a fellow usually in post-graduate studies. Fellowship is given by institutions which value continuing and lifelong education. Such connotation or implication of...
Acofo: Pranic healing services and seminars go full blast
BAGUIO will benefit from the series of Pranic Healing (PH) services from May 30 to June 8. It started yesterday with free Pranic Healing, orientation and meditation held at the Northern Luzon Pranic Healing–Center (apartment A, Brentwood Road). It is located near the Pink Sister’s Convent. It...
Acofo: Corporate culture - soul of an organization
SOME years back the Department of Agrarian Reform wanted to adopt or even build a corporate culture. What this person thought of then, after staying with the Department Agrarian Reform for more than two decades, adopting or building a corporate culture in the agency was to make the DAR more...
Acofo: NL Pranic Healing Center opens new office
THE Northern Luzon Pranic Healing Center has a new office located at Apartment A, Brentwood Road, Baguio City. The new office is approximately ten to fifteen meters away from the Pink Sisters Convent. I have been writing about pranic healing (PH) in about five years. I cannot count how many...
Acofo: A second look at the tuping
THE tuping, as it should be done, must have the bigger stones as its base. The base is known as "pegnad". As the tuping rises, the stones used to build this indigenous stonewall eventually gets smaller. Here, the law of gravity works.
Acofo: Get back your change please
IT IS the season of Panagbenga. The season of flower (in bloom) in this city known as the Summer capital of the Philippines. The Department of Tourism has been reporting that the number of visitors that across the year reached the one million mark.
Acofo: IP elders in the city
SIR, the traditional indigenous elders are here in the city and other urbanizing towns of the Cordillera. The educated, businessmen and professional I P Cordilleran, Sir heard, wrote about, felt and shared the consciousness of their community in the hinterlands of the Cordillera. They keep it...
Acofo: Agribusiness in Cordillera and the 'Expanded Social Conscience' of the IP
AGRIBUSINESS in the Cordillera among the departments of Agriculture, Agrarian Reform and Environment and Natural Resources repeatedly said in this column is the core strategy to develop agriculture in this upland region which aims to be a food-basket and continue as watershed cradle of North...
Acofo: Thanks to a friend this Yuletide Season
"I LIKED your last column. You give me a copy", Manion enthusiastically asked me when I visited his "wagwagan" at the Chinese School along Harrison Road.
Acofo: Agribusiness in a food basket like CAR
THE Cordillera aims to be a food basket of the North Luzon. Major products are upland vegetables, rice, corn, non-timber forest products e.g. bamboo, rattan, etc. and their derivatives (chairs, woven baskets, preserved fruits and vegetables, etc.)
Acofo: A gift to our readers this yuletide season
A daily prayer for divine blessings
BELOVED Divine Father Mother,
Let Your Divine Light fill my mind
with wisdom and discernment.
Let Your Divine Love fill my heart
with warmness, sweetness and
compassion for all.
Let Your Divine Power fill...
Acofo: Balance in Union (Convergence) and DENR order
AGRIBUSINESS to be a successful industry in the Cordillera has to be balanced with the bio-wealth of this upland region and famed watershed cradle of north Luzon.
Acofo: Expand the parameter of union
"PARAMETER of Union" - that was how my editor laymanized "Magnitude as a parameter of convergence" which was the title of the last column.
Acofo: Magnitude is a parameter of convergence
CONVERGENCE transcends political, economic, social boundaries as in the case of the Cordillera. The Cordillera is by itself an ecological system. The upland-lowland ecosystem should dominate this ecological perspective when doing development planning as in convergence. This was initially...
Acofo: Convergence beyond boundaries, writ of kalikasan
ITOGON , Benguet is an agrarian reform community. An ARC is a barangay or a cluster of barangays where the Department of Agrarian Reform implemented the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform. The municipality of Itogon, is a mining community. Benguet Corporation- the oldest mining corporation in Asia...
Acofo: On risks
IN MY last two columns, we talked about investment. Investment always involves risks. Below are guideposts how to deal with risks related to any investment. The guideposts are taken from "ACHIEVE THE IMPOSSIBLE by Master Choa Kok Sui". Master Choa Kok Sui is a spiritual scientist and a...
Acofo: Multiplier effect of investment as just the truth
LAST time, we discussed multiplier effect of a project or a program.
Acofo: Hometown chimes of the heart in another place, another home
CAN we relocate our tradition? Can we bring it to another place, another home for it to rest or perhaps to share the bliss of our culture it is part of? By the way, who is it who said music is the language of the soul? To the communalist indigenous peoples like the Bontoks, their songs chime...
Acofo: ARCs at the Core of Development Planning
LAST time I wrote in 1993, an estimated eight billion pesos was invested in 85 Agrarian Reform Communities (ARC) in the Cordillera. A study by the Institute of Agrarian Studies in 1998 showed that household incomes in 1,000 ARCs in the country was higher by six percent compared to the household...
Acofo: The cute names of taxis to me
RIDING the taxis here in Baguio with a personal way of looking at how things are developing in this metropolis called Baguio City keeps getting interesting.
Acofo: Helpfulness and courtesy at Pag-Ibig, Baguio
BEFORE anything else, I would like to say that at the Baguio Office of the Pag-Ibig is Ms. Elaine Joyce Dampag, data controller 1V, who hit me with her courtesy, initiative to please clients of Pag-Ibig. And these clients who are the employees of government include pushy yet self-assured...
Acofo: Development framework, measures; humility and change
DEVELOPMENT frameworks, contexts, paradigms continue to buzz in discussions, academic papers, publications and programs that have to deal with development.
Acofo: Thank You Ma'am "Len" Ortenero!
THE RUSH! Last Thursday, I felt the "rush". Adrenaline was high. Everybody was in a rush. Last Friday was a holiday- so three days of no work! I was preparing to go home Bontoc to attend the wake of an aunt in Bontoc. Auntie "Lavfas" Fagtang is a first cousin of my late dad. My dad was an "...
