LINGAYEN—A road normally taken by trucks of illegal loggers passing through mountain slopes is now being eyed for expansion as a new super highway that will connect Pangasinan to Zambales. This was revealed by Second Highway District Engineer Rodolfo Dion who said the proposed new highway, with a length of…
Scientists from Australia, Indonesia, Thailand, and Malaysia are expected to arrive to attend an international training-seminar on sea cucumber set at the Asian Fisheries Academy in Dagupan from April 14 to 16. Dr. Westly Rosario, interim executive director of the National Fisheries Research and Development Institute (NFRDI) based at the…
WATER PUMPS FOR FARMERS—Rep. Jose de Venecia Jr., with wife Gina and National Irrigation Administration Regional Director John Celeste, turns over to San Jacinto’s farmers their share of the 112 water pumps made available for farmers in the 4th district to boost their farm production.
FIFTY three informal settler households will be relocated to give way to the construction of the Seafood Processing Plant in Bonuan Binloc beginning June this year. City Engineer Virginia Rosario, chair of the city’s Task Force on Housing and Urban Poor Resettlement, said some of the families will be moved…
ALAMINOS CITY—The Hundred Islands will soon have an added attraction – an Olympic-sized swimming pool. The pool, now under construction, is expected to draw in more tourists, said Mayor Hernani Braganza. The swimming pool, a project funded by the Philippine Tourism Authority (PTA), is built at the Lucap Wharf, beside…
THE Pacific white shrimp Penaeus vannamei takes center stage on May 8-9 when the National Fisheries Research and Development Institute (NFRDI) hosts a summit highlighting the Philippine experience on the species. Dr. Westly Rosario, NFRDI interim executive director and chief of the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR)…
The breeding of the sandfish, a variety of the sea cucumber now in the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) list of priority species, is hailed a success at the National Integrated Fisheries technology Development Center (NIFTDC) in Bonuan Binloc, Dagupan. The National Fisheries Research and Development Institute (NFRDI)…
ROSALES–A group of farmers expressed optimism that the mushroom industry in the province will soon become a major economic activity here once a proposed P14 million loan from the Department of Agriculture (DA) is secured for a processing plant. The Balikatan Farmers Multi-Purpose Cooperative based in barangay San Angel here…
THE Bureau of Trade Regulations and Consumer Protection of the Department of Trade and Industry has scheduled the 2008 Real Estate Broker Licensure Examination on May 25. The examination will be held in Baguio City for prospective examinees from Northern Luzon. Interested examinees may secure application forms from the DTI…
MUSHROOM MAN—Venancio Abalos, general manager of the Balikatan Farmers Multi-Purpose Cooperative, shows some of his medicinal ganoderma mushroom, which fetch a price of up to P5,000 per kilo in the market. Abalos said the mushroom industry in the country will boom once the proposed processing plant is established. (Punchphoto by…
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