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SUBSIDIES GRANTED to government-owned and -controlled corporations (GOCCs) fell 27.7% from a year earlier in February to P7.581 billion, the Bureau of the Treasury reported.
The National Irrigation Administration received 65.9% of the total with P4.994 billion, down 15% from a year earlier.
The Bases Conversion Development Authority received P720 million, the Small Business Corp. P300 million and the Philippine Heart Center P296 million.
Other top recipients were the National Kidney Transplant Institute (P213 million), Philippine Children’s Medical Center (P209 million), Light Rail Transit Administration (P170 million), and Philippine Rice Research Institute (P155 million).
Towards the bottom of the subsidy list were the Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority (P2 million), Philippine Health Insurance Corp. (P3 million), the Aurora Pacific Economic Zone and Freeport Authority and Zamboanga City Special Economic Zone Authority (P8
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It’s not only roses and mums that bring color and vibrance in Barangay Alno in La Trinidad, Benguet amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Among the vast flower gardens are the quirky-looking yet oddly fascinating cactus and succulents that make Alno home to the biggest ornamental cactus farm in the country.
Living Gifts Nursery
Who would have thought that cactus and succulents which are mostly found in deserts would thrive in the cold mountains of the Cordillera?
“The natural habitat of cactus are in Africa, some parts of Europe, and Central and Southern America. We have a native variety of succulents which is called Kalanchoe – these are the kataka-taka and euphorbia from Palawan,” explained Dan Saclangan, owner of the Living Gifts Nursery in Barangay Alno.