29 farm owners graduate from climate smart farm business school training
CITY OF SAN FERNANDO— Twenty-nine farm owners and LGU representatives from Ilocos Region, Cagayan Region and Central Luzon graduated from the training on Climate-Smart Farm Business School implemented by the Agricultural Training Institute Regional Office III in partnership with Villar Social Institute for Poverty Alleviation and Governance (SIPAG) Foundation at Orotel, City of San Fernando City recently.
The graduation ceremony was attended by the Senate Committee on Agriculture and Food Chairperson and the managing director of the Villar SIPAG Foundation Senator Cynthia Villar who also served as the guest speaker.
“We have to empower our farmers to continue on their family-farming and while they continue their family-farming, they are earning,” Villar said during her speech at the graduation ceremony.
Villar hopes that the graduates’experiences can be used for the development of business plan to be implemented to their own farms and wants every town in the country has farm school.
“In fact, ako po, talagang ngayong congress, ay really working hard to be able to pass a bill about providing insurance to all agricultural crops and the small and micro enterprises,” Villar said.
representatives, heirs or assigns, all persons acting in their place or stead are hereby enjoined to Cease and Desist from entering into a new contract of lease involving the property until the resolution of the main case.”
“From the evidence so far presented by the parties during the summary hearing on injunction and after considering the pleadings and the oral arguments including the requisites before a writ of preliminary injunction may be issued without delving on the merits of the case, this Court finds the need for the issuance of a preliminary injunction.”
The court order stated that the officers and members of the CSEU claimed that on October 31, 1958, the Chevalier School’s predecessor-in-interest Sacred Heart Mission Seminary of Pampanga Incorporated entered into a lease contract with the Roman Catholic Bishop of San Fernando for the land where the school now stands.
The land lease term is for 99 years and it is supposed to end in 2057.
However, the petitioners said they learned from Father Archimedes Tapang, rector of Chevalier School, that by reason of a decision of the Roman-Rota (the ecclesiastical court of the Roman Catholic Church), there is an ongoing negotiations between the Archdiocese of San Fernando and the MSC on the lease contract that would shorten the lease term.
“In the March 15, 2016 letter of Most Reverend Florentino G. Lavarias, DD of the Archdiocese of San Fernando to Reverend Father Gene Pejo, the Provincial Superior of MSC, the new lease contract will provide for a five year lease period to be reckoned from January 2016 which may be renewed after five years upon mutual agreement. Then on his May 20, 2016 communication also to Reverend Father Pejo, the Most Reverend Lavarias, the term of the new lease will be for a maximum period of 10 years counted likewise from January 1, 2016,” the court order stated.
According to Father Tapang, the Archdiocese and the MSC were set to sign the new lease agreement last March 21, 2017.
In the court order, the CSEU claimed that the remaining nine years term under the new lease contract to be signed is not enough for the students enrolled in the kindergarten and grade 1 and 2 to finish their respective 13-year basic education. “Thus, to the extent of three years, the proposed 10 years materially invades the right for education of the kindergarten, Grade 1 and 2 students of Chevalier School.”
The Education Act of 1982 states that “the right of a students to complete his course in the school he/she is enrolled in, and the concomitant contractual obligation of the school to afford its students a fair opportunity to complete the course is also recognized by jurisprudence.”
The petitioners alleged further that aside from the March 21, 2017 scheduled signing of a new contract, injunctive relief is urgently needed as the enrolment for the school year 2017-2018 is already set on April 2017.
Aside from this, the CSEU also stated that due to the uncertainty of Chevalier School’s life which was made known to its enrollees and aggravated by newspaper articles, the number of letters of intent from parents signifying their intention to reenroll at the Chevalier School declined.
The court ordered the petitioners to post a bond of P1 million within a period of five days upon receipt of its order. This is to answer for any damage that the respondents may suffer in the event the court later determined that the petitioner is not entitled to the relief prayed for.