{"id":214654,"date":"2015-11-17T06:06:34","date_gmt":"2015-11-16T20:06:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=214654"},"modified":"2015-11-17T06:06:34","modified_gmt":"2015-11-16T20:06:34","slug":"agreement-signed-between-dlnr-farmers-co-op","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/agreement-signed-between-dlnr-farmers-co-op\/","title":{"rendered":"Agreement signed between DLNR, farmers\u2019 co-op"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_214655\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-214655\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Farmers-Market-pix.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Farmers-Market-pix-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Co-op pro-tem president Crispin Deleon Guerrero and acting DLNR Secretary Marianne Concepcion-Teregeyo sign the agreement with regards to the co-op\u2019s use of the Garapan Public Market facility. (Frauleine Villanueva-Dizon)\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-214655\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-214655\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Co-op pro-tem president Crispin Deleon Guerrero and acting DLNR Secretary Marianne Concepcion-Teregeyo sign the agreement with regards to the co-op\u2019s use of the Garapan Public Market facility. (Frauleine Villanueva-Dizon)<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nAn agreement between the Department of Lands and Natural Resources and the CNMI Farmers Cooperative Association was finally signed last Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Co-op board members and acting DLNR Secretary Marianne Concepcion-Teregeyo attended the signing at the Garapan Public Market.<\/p>\n<p>Pro-tem president Crispin Deleon Guerrero and Teregeyo signed the document on behalf of the co-op board and DLNR.<\/p>\n<p>In just two weeks since calling the attention of the co-op, a year-long overdue agreement is now in place after both parties sat down with acting governor Ralph DLG Torres and their legal counsels last week.<\/p>\n<p>With the agreement signed, the co-op can again operate the Garapan Public Market building.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPublic Market now can operate because the only main issue in the very beginning was that when they operated a year ago, there was no agreement. The department just want to do things right,\u201d Teregeyo said.<\/p>\n<p>The signed agreement now includes $300,000 liability insurance, an increase from the co-op\u2019s negotiation last week of $200,000. The co-op also noted that the insurance will cover food poisoning.<\/p>\n<p>The agreement states that the co-op will sell not only local produce but also seafood, poultry, and meat, and that the market will be a central place for farmers, fishermen and ranchers to sell their goods.<\/p>\n<p>The co-op is now in the process of coming up with an opening date as well as their inventory.<\/p>\n<p>With regards to Marianas Meat Harvesting, which is still operating at the market after two cease-and-desist letters from DLNR, Teregeyo said it is a separate issue.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe meat market is a separate issue. The AG\u2019s Office has already guided us on two cease-and-desist letters and the meat market has responded to that and we\u2019re working with the AG,\u201d Teregeyo said.<\/p>\n<p>She added that they will be meeting with the AG with regards to the response of the meat company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An agreement between the Department of Lands and Natural Resources and the CNMI Farmers Cooperative&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":214655,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[68,8033,346,1481],"class_list":["post-214654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-ag","tag-crispin-deleon-guerrero","tag-dlnr","tag-garapan-public-market"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214654\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}