Philippines will play host to a Biofuel forum that will be attended by South East Asian nations. To be held on April 23 to 25 at the Dusit Thani Hotel in Makati. The theme of the forum is entitled: “Unravelling the Policy Issues and Development Challenges on Biofuels”.

The event is hosted by the Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture (SEARGA) who are headquartered at Los Baños.
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I was talking to a friend a few days back and he mentioned that he was having a hard time acquiring land for his client in the Northern and Central Mindanao region because of land owners not wanting to let go of their lots at reasonable prices.

He said that land owners have started to become speculators because they know that there is a lot of buzz in the biofuel sector about their areas being ideal sites for biofuel production. This was even punctuated further with some news coming out that some investors are eyeing these areas to set up biofuel refineries.
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