Why not fashion bags made from bangus?
BANGUS may soon become fashionable, literally.
Mrs. Gina de Venecia, wife of Rep. Jose de Venecia Jr., has urged the Department of Trade and Industry to conduct a study on the potential of expensive fashion bags for export using the skin and flesh of local bangus.
De Venecia said she got the idea from a bag she saw in Cebu that was made from factory-processed skin of sting ray (pagi) that is now a big sensation in the export market.
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“If they can do it in Cebu with sting ray, we can also do it with our bangus,” said De Venecia who accompanied her husband in another distribution of galvanized iron sheets to victims of Typhoon Cosme in Dagupan last Friday.
She rallied housewives to embark on livelihood projects that will support the income of their husbands, especially at this time of international financial crisis.
“Housewives should not just simply stay idle in their homes when the economy of the country and the entire world is threatened,” she said.
De Venecia recently visited various factories in Cebu where fashion jewelries, bags from rattan and other indigenous materials for export are developed by housewives.
She said she has talked to Dagupan City Acting Mayor Farah Decano to bring the city’s housewives together in a class where they can be taught skills for the development of cottage industries.
De Venecia is now conducting an inventory of indigenous products as well as waste materials that can be used as raw materials for cottage industry projects that can manufacture products for export.—LM
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