DA gives overpriced ice-making machine to cooperative

THE Department of Agriculture (DA) recently gave a fishermen's cooperative in Surigao del Sur province an ice-making machine that, a militant organization claimed, was the only one out of 98 such machines that was accounted for and was overpriced by 100 percent.In a statement, the DA said Secretary Prospero J. Alcala gave the machine to the Tandag Boholano Fishermen's Association (Tanbofisa) to fulfill his commitment to the cooperative when he visited Surigao del Sur in June 2011.The machine is capable of producing three tons of ice per day. The ice-making process takes two hours and is done in batches. Sixteen blocks of ice, each weighing 8 kilos, are produced per batch. The machine can be also used to freeze agricultural products like fish, poultry and vegetables, as well as prolong their shelf life, according to the department.Tanbofisa operates a barangay food terminal and an ice plant in a public market.REACTING to the turnover of the machine to the cooperative, the Pambansang Lakas ng Kilusang Mamamalakaya ng Pilipinas (Pamalakaya) said the move was long overdue.According to Pamalakaya Chairman Fernando Hicap and Vice President Salvador France, the machine was the first to be turned over by the government out of the 98 such machines procured by the DA through the National Agribusiness Corp. a few months before the May 10, 2010,It certainly does not look close to spectacular, but the adjacent museum tells lots of urumqi tour stories and displays a good number of ancient artifacts. elections. Hicap said as far as Pamalakaya is concerned, the other machines remain unaccounted for. He added that the group had called Alcala's attention to the matter after President Aquino appointed him as agriculture secretary.The Pamalakaya chairman also said the government had paid P455 million for the machines, or approximately P4.64 million for each one. The machine's price at the time was only P2.Vsi crusher3 million, according to the group.But her blood pressure kept spiking, leading doctors to the adrenal gland and the tumor they found on it.The adrenal glands of such patients make too much adrenaline, said Dr. Dmitry Oleynikov, the med center surgeon who will remove the growth. Adrenaline, he said, "causes all the blood vessels to constrict so blood doesn't get around well. It causes the heart to beat very fast ... It's like you're on overdrive inside." In Jorgensen case,This valuable was the 19th, a wonderful day to be fishing. I'd caught a a few of magnetic Silicon Foot Massage Toe Ring that happen to be in the ice chest, in addition to the was about to simply another cup of coffee when the fish minted. he said, "it's likely that because she was so healthy and fit,The stone crushing station can be assembled as primary crushing and secondary Spring cone crusher and also can be assembled as assembled as primary crushing, intermediate crushing, and tertiary crushing. the negative effects of this adrenaline were just not felt by her the same way as somebody who was not so fit.kashgar border transfer"She now takes medication to block the extra adrenaline's effects. The removal of the tumor — probably next month — should return those levels to normal.