WHAT was once thought to be unthinkable in aquaculture industry will soon be a reality, Sea cucumbers will be cultured and for the first time in fishponds to co-exist with shrimps following a successful experiment conducted by the National Integrated Fisheries Technology Development Center (NIFTDC) in Dagupan City. This was…
SOON there will be less cable poles erected and sights of dangling and crisscrossing cables and wires along Dagupan City’s major thorough fares will soon be a thing of the past. This will be made possible by the memorandum of agreement signed on Tuesday by major power, telcos, internet and…
IF the recent economic indices of the Ilocos region are correct, it would appear that it has been insulated from the current financial crisis. According to the regional office of the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE), no establishment has closed shop and employment rate was at 93 percent, Regional…
PEOPLE run into many health problems as they reach adulthood when they could have easily prevented this by developing healthy habits such as drinking milk during childhood. The 2006 National Oral Health Survey conducted by the Department of Education (DepEd) revealed that 97 percent of grade one schoolchildren suffer from…
SAN FERNANDO CITY–The National Food Authority (NFA) branch in western Pangasinan leads in the procurement of palay throughout the Ilocos Region as of September this year with a buying price pegged at P17 per kilogram. Early harvests in Mangatarem and adjacent towns accounted for 62.5 percent of the total palay…
CALASIAO–More Pangasinenses expect to gain employment after earning their certificates of completion of training programs conducted by the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA). More than forty per cent of 3000 trainees from the Ilocos Region who have completed their training programs were Pangasinenses. TESDA Provincial Director Ponciano Catipon…
SAFETY NETS VS. FINANCIAL CRISIS—Dagupan City Vice Mayor Belen Fernandez and Third District Rep. Rachel Arenas hold a joint press conference after they formally opened the CSI Bayambang where they discussed safety nets they have designed and adopted to cushion the impact of the current financial crisis on Pangasinenses.
BAYAMBANG—Despite the global financial crisis which is affecting the Philippines, Northern Luzon’s retail giant, City Supermarket Inc. (CSI), stays on course with its expansion plans by opening a new branch here. The CSI Bayambang, the 12th branch of the CSI chain of shopping malls, supermarkets and super-stores, is positioned to…
THE Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice), in collaboration with the local government of Bayambang, recently launched Oplan Sagip Sibuyas, an information campaign aimed at empowering local onion-rice farmers. More than 300 onion-rice farmers, extension workers, and students participated in the program launch that demonstrated how farmers can deal with pests….
CONSUMERS in the capital Metro Manila and soon elsewhere in the country no longer have to worry about being duped into buying bangus being passed off as Dagupan or Bonuan Bangus. The tagged bangus tail will tell all. The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) regional office in Ilocos…
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