STA. BARBARA—Pangasinan could become the leading rice producer in the country if the re-regulating pond just below the San Roque Multi-Purpose Dam in San Manuel town is constructed. Mayor Reynaldo Velasco said the year-round irrigation water from the re-regulating pond could double the province’s rice production and surpass those of…
MORE than 100 families living at the Gawad Kalinga Bangusville in Dagupan have expressed interest in the Pagsasarili program of the city government. Alberto de Vera, agricultural technologist of the City Agriculture Office (CAO), told The PUNCH that some residents have already been introduced into the program by his office,…
President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and former House Speaker Jose de Venecia Jr. are now immortalized in shrimp. The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) in Dagupan is now developing Hipon ni Gloria of the ulang variety and a hipon ni JDV of the Penaeus vannamei kind. Dr. Westly Rosario, BFAR…
SHRIMP SUPPORTERS—Rep. Jose de Venecia Jr. with (from left) Dr. Edmundo Exconde of the Nazareth General Hospital, City legal officer George Mejia, and Dr. Westly Rosario, interim executive director of the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) Research Center, listen to Dr. Leobert dela Peña (2nd from right) of…
ROSALES– Engr. Rosendo So, chairman of the Abono partylist for farmers based here, has called on National Food Authority (NFA) Deputy Administrator Vic Jarina to resign on account of the government’s plan to import 400,000 tons of rice in December. “Jarina does not know what he is saying. Our local…
THE first Animal Fish Health Laboratory in Northern Luzon opened in Dagupan on Thursday, in anticipation of an expected boom in shrimp raising throughout the country. Equipped with imported sophisticated gadgets, the laboratory can now easily detect diseases that infect locally-grown shrimps, including imported fingerlings.
MANGALDAN–Bead-making will be introduced as a livelihood project for women in the 4th District through the initiative of Gina de Venecia, wife of the District’s Rep. Jose de Venecia Jr. Mrs. De Venecia said she herself took a hands-on bead-making class so that she can personally teach the women who…
TILAPIA FARMING—Gov. Amado Espino Jr. (left) turns over a plastic bag containing tilapia fingerlings to one of the beneficiaries of the provincial government’s livelihood improvement program on August 21 at a provincial fish farm in Barangay Libsong, Lingayen. At center is Dalisay Moya, officer-in-charge of the Office of the Provincial…
ROSALES–Sixth District Rep. Conrado Estrella III hailed the arrival of an SM mall here, saying it will spur economic activity not just in this agricultural town but in the province as a whole. “The benefits that will accrue to this town and the whole district as well and the province…
TRADE FAIR IN MANILA SET ON OCT. 22-26 BOTTLED bangus, kikiam, siomai, or lumpia from Pangasinan, anyone? Soon the province may no longer be known just for its tasty bangus and bagoong but a wider range of processed products as the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) provincial office conducts…
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