LINGAYEN – Provincial Agriculture Office OIC Dolly Moya has written to all mayors to require their market supervisors, quarantine officers and market administrators to demand “auxiliary invoice” or clearance for domestic fish movement from transporters or dealers of fish and seashells to ensure that the commodities are safe from paralytic…
THE National Food Authority (NFA) in western Pangasinan is now accepting applications for renewal of business license of grains businessmen for the year 2015. The agency requires all grains businessmen to secure license to be able to engage in buying and selling of grains.
Grain traders told to renew NFA license
THE “Araw ng Propesyonal” mobile outreach service of the Professional Regulation Commission (PRC)-Baguio Regional Office will return to the province this month. The mobile outreach services will be conducted from 9am to 4pm on January 20 at the Robert B. Estrella, Sr. Memorial Stadium in Rosales.
PRC mobile services in Rosales Jan 20
A GROUP of American students are learning from Filipinos’ success in fisheries whom they acknowledge as “the masters of aquaculture.” Leading the nine students is Dr. Michael Rice of the Department of Fisheries, Animal and Veterinary Sciences of University of Rhode Island, a former US Peace Corps volunteer in 1981…
US students here to learn aquaculture practices
THE “Bantay Ilog” team of the City Agriculture Office is again on high alert after it intercepted and seized three sacks of mussels, a few kilos of crabs and other aquatic products transported from Anda town. The shipment may be parts of 22 sacks earlier seized by the police from a passenger bus while…
Red tide-infected mussels from Anda seized
NO MINE TAILING EFFECTS DAGUPAN bangus eaters can heave a sigh of relief following the disclosure of the findings of a reputable laboratory firm that the milkfish being raised in Dagupan has no trace of heavy metals as a result of possible mine tailing in the city ‘s rivers. This…
Quality of Dagupan bangus affirmed by tests
THE Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) provincial office here confirmed that the province registered P1.9 billion in the total investments in 2014, representing 26 percent increase over 2013’s P1.5 billion. Director Peter Mangabat of the DTI provincial office, said personal services industry such as spas, beauty centers, accounting firms…
Total investments in Pangasinan up by 26%
LINGAYEN – Local producers of products with export quality have been assured of continuing opportunities to penetrate global market through the linkage provided by the Pangasinan Brotherhood – United States of America (PB-USA), a conglomerate of US-based Pangasinense associations. This commitment was affirmed by PB-USA Executive Vice-President Lino Caringal, who led…
PB-USA reaffirms support for local producers
SOME 20 families from five barangays here were chosen as beneficiaries of the community food production-cum-nursery program as pilot models for the city’s organic agricultural production program. The selected families from barangay Salisay, Tebeng, Bonuan Boquig, Lucao and Malued will receive composting sheds, seeds and garden tools, they will use…
City set to promote organic agri products
THE garbage and waste disposal in Dagupan City is expected to get a boost once the ‘Waste to Worth Program’ (W2WP) is launched with the help of the multi-national Procter & Gamble. City Administrator Farah Marie G. Decano said during the 40th Executive Session on January 5 that P&G has already completed its study…




