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Oriental Mindoro Offers Free Soil Testing to Optimize Rice Yields
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Oriental Mindoro Mechanizes Farms to Counter Labor Drain, Distributes P162M Worth of Tools
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Sablayan Prison Officials Dismissed Over Contraband Smuggling Attempt
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Batangas Port Terminal Fee to Increase 233% Affecting Thousands of Mindoro Travelers
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Oriental Mindoro Offers Free Soil Testing to Optimize Rice Yields
Hundreds of rice farmers in Oriental Mindoro have benefited from a new program offering free, on-site soil analysis and immediate fertilizer recommendations. The program, spearheaded…
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Oriental Mindoro Offers Free Soil Testing to Optimize Rice Yields
Hundreds of rice farmers in Oriental Mindoro have benefited from a new program offering free, on-site soil analysis and immediate fertilizer recommendations. The program, spearheaded by the…
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Oriental Mindoro Offers Free Soil Testing to Optimize Rice Yields
Hundreds of rice farmers in Oriental Mindoro have benefited from a new program offering free, on-site soil analysis and…
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Oriental Mindoro Mechanizes Farms to Counter Labor Drain, Distributes P162M Worth of Tools
Facing a persistent dearth of farmhands, Oriental Mindoro has equipped its agricultural sector with over P162 million in modern…
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Sablayan Prison Officials Dismissed Over Contraband Smuggling Attempt
The Bureau of Corrections (BuCor) has dismissed the camp commander and a commissioned officer at Sablayan Prison and Penal…
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Batangas Port Terminal Fee to Increase 233% Affecting Thousands of Mindoro Travelers
The operator of the Philippines’ primary gateway to Mindoro Island is seeking to more than triple passenger terminal fees,…
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Romel “Direk” Ferriol Bernardo
Bernardo Creative Ventures, Inc., the company behind Direk Fuels, Oriental Mindoro’s homegrown gas station chain, and Direk Builders, which rents out heavy equipment, is expanding its portfolio by venturing into online media and content production.
The company’s entry into news media is not surprising, as its founder and CEO, Romel “Direk” Bernardo, was a television writer, producer, and director for over 15 years. From 2002 to 2007, he served as a researcher, writer, and producer for GMA-7’s top-rating show Imbestigador before becoming the executive producer for ABS-CBN’s award-winning documentary program, The Correspondents.
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Oriental Mindoro Offers Free Soil Testing to Optimize Rice Yields
Hundreds of rice farmers in Oriental Mindoro have benefited from a new program offering free, on-site soil analysis and immediate fertilizer recommendations. The program, spearheaded by the Provincial Agriculturist’s Office between March and May 2025, will improve crop yields and…
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Oriental Mindoro Offers Free Soil Testing to Optimize Rice Yields
Hundreds of rice farmers in Oriental Mindoro have benefited from a new program offering free, on-site soil analysis and immediate fertilizer recommendations. The program, spearheaded…
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Panutsa, Pansiteria, and Mindoro’s Forgotten Buses
By Romel “Direl” F. Bernardo(First of two parts) Long before massive and speeding Chinese-made passenger buses began passing through our island from Manila to Visayas and vice versa, or…
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Domestic Tourism’s Long Road To Recovery
(This article was penned at the height of COVID 10 pandemic in 2020)By Romel “Direk” Ferriol Bernardo Businesswoman Flor Maliwanag-Keh should have been the busiest and proudest business owner…