SOME 200 distributors and principal dealers of consumer goods and products are participating in the 11th edition of the Sari-Sari-Store Fair which kicked off on Thursday at CSI Stadia in Dagupan City till October 1. Caroline Fernandez of CSI Group of Companies and Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) provincial Director Peter Mangabat officially opened the…

FOR OUT-OF-SCHOOL YOUTH THE JobStart Training Program for Out-of-School Youth (OSYs) of the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) in partnership with the Dagupan City government is now going on in earnest. DOLE District Officer Engracio Bailon told the KBP Forum on Thursday, the JobStart program is being implemented in Dagupan by the city’s Public…

ORGANIC FOOD IS HERE — Farmers of organic food products in Pangasinan collaborated for an opportunity to showcase their organic agri products for local consumers’ benefit at the 2017 Regional Organic Agriculture Congress last September 20 at the Sison Auditorium in Lingayen (Punchphoto by Cesar Ramirez) 

LINGAYEN— Gov. Amado Espino III asked the region’s farmers to continue their strides towards organic agriculture in order to produce healthier food for the people. He made the call before agriculture officials, entrepreneurs and farmers from Region 1 who participated in the four-day Regional Organic Agriculture Summit at the Sison…

THERE is no shortage of coins, according to Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas, Dagupan Branch. According Romeo Badua, Acting Deputy Director of BSP Dagupan, during the launching of coin exchange or Palit Barya program last September 16 last week, 39, 689 pieces of coins (value: P58,475.09) were collected during the launching…

IT will take more than pictures to convince Samahan ng Industriyang Agrikultura (SINAG) that finally a serious campaign against smuggling of agricultural products is on. This was the reaction of SINAG Chair Rosendo So to claims that more smuggled products are now being intercepted by the Bureaus of Customs. So…

POULTRY raisers seriously affected by reports of avian influenza last month are beginning to recover from their losses. This was confirmed by Rosendo So, chairman of Samahan ng Industriyang Agrikultura (SINAG) during the KBP Forum Pangasinan chapter last Thursday. But he said there is a glut of oversized chicken in…

THE Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) gave additional grace period to Pangasinan Solid North after noting that the civil case filed by Solid North against Victory Liner before Branch 41 of the Regional Trial Court for not allowing its buses to pass through a road lot at the back of its terminal…

CITY Agriculture Officer Emma J. Molina directed all motorboat owners operating either as fishing or passenger vessels to register with her office as required by City Ordinance No.1768, series of 2003, which regulates fishing activities in the city. It is also in compliance with E.O. 305 devolving to municipal and city…

THE Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) gave Solid North bus company last Friday an ultimatum to submit its decision till September 12, whether to vacate its present terminal on Perez Boulevard or convince its two rival bus companies to allow its buses to pass through their common ingress and egress at the…