More engage in solar salt making

By April 24, 2016Business, News

THANKS TO EL NINO

IT’S boom time for solar salt!

More people are engaging in solar salt making owing to the intense summer heat brought about by El Niño, an official of the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) here said.

Dr. Westly Rosario, BFAR-National Integrated Fisheries Technology Development Center chief here, said coconut farmers and teachers from Lopez, Quezon visited them to learn about salt making.

“Fisherfolk can take advantage of El Niño since solar salt production greatly depends on hot climate and sun exposure for faster evaporation process,” he said.

Last month, his personnel trained 50 fisherfolk in Barangay Sabang, Morong, Bataan on solar salt production.

He said marginal fisherfolks and unemployed housewives in the coastal area of Morong are encouraged to engage in salt making since they reside in very strategic location for the industry.

Bataan and Quezon are not salt producing provinces like most areas with long coastal areas.

They were taught how to produce seawater using 2 x 15- meter plastic and seawater. After six days of sun exposure, 25 kilograms of salt can already be harvested in each salt bed, Rosario said.

He said China has been credited to have 62,158,000 metric tons production or 22.48 percent of world production. China and USA dominate in world salt production. Their combined production accounts for 40 percent of the world’s quarter billion tons of salt produced each year, he added.

He said the Philippines, on the other hand, ranked 35th production of salt with 725,000 metric tons. But only about 17 percent of this is consumed for household use. (Tita Roces)

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