Browsing by Subject "salts"
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Pangasinan to open salt farms for tourists
(The Manila Times,September 21, 2023 , on page A7)This town's tourism office is now preparing a tour package, including a visit to a salt farm. Guendolin Bustamante, head of this town's tourism and cultural office, said her office is now drafting a memorandum of agreement ... -
PH imports 93% of salt supply - DA
(Manila Bulletin,August 31, 2022 , on page 3)Despite being surrounded by seawater, the Department of Agriculture (DA) said the Philippines has been importing 93 percent of its salt supply. “[It is] an unfortunate circumstance to a country with 36,000 kilometers of ... -
PH imports 93% salt needs - Agri group
(The Manila Times,August 27, 2022 , on page A2)An agricultural group on Friday said that the country imports 93 percent of its salt requirements of 550,000 metric tons from China and Australia with the "dead local salt industry." In a radio interview, Philippine Chamber ... -
Salt congress
(Manila Bulletin,November 21, 2022 , on page 2)The Pangasinan State University will host the first Philippine Salt Congress from Nov. 26 to 27 at the Sison Auditorium Capitol Complex here. Paulo Cenas, PSU Vice President for Research, Extension, Innovation, Gender, and ... -
[ Salt farm ]
(Panay News,May 31, 2015 , on page 8)Salt farm workers in Cavite fill up a pond with saltwater that produces rock salt when left to dry under the sun. Salt producers take advantage of the hot dry spell stemming from the El Niño phenomenon. -
Salt industry dev’t bill hurdles House committee
(BusinessWorld,May 12, 2023 , on page S1/4)A house committee has approved a substitute bill outlining plans to revive the salt industry. The House Agriculture and Food committee approved on Thursday the proposed Philippine Salt Industry Development Act, which seeks ... -
Salt industry modernization eyed
(Manila Bulletin,August 30, 2022 , on page 1-6)Malacañang disclosed that “initial plans” are in place to improve salt production in the country, an industry it tagged as “long neglected.” “Tutulong ang ating pamahalaan para sa modernisasyon ng ating industriya ng ... -
Salt industry output seen held back by reclamation, import competition
(BusinessWorld,September 12, 2022 , on page S1/5)The salt industry is unable to boost production due to the reclamation of shoreline and competition from imports, an organization of farmers said. “Due to cutthroat trade liberalization and side-by-side reclamation projects, ... -
Salt shortage leads to importation
(Manila Bulletin,January 10, 2023 , on page B-4)The irony has not been lost on us, that in spite of the Philippines being of agricultural terrain, we import many of our basic agricultural needs, betraying perhaps decades of benign neglect mainly by government and private ... -
Salt to the agri wound
(Daily Tribune,January 20, 2023 , on page A5)First, it was onions at almost P700 per kilo. Following the shock of these "golden" bulbs, eggs became quite precious at P215 per tray. Now it's salt - and lawmakers are rubbing it in a wound that seems to have afflicted ... -
Salt-making alternative to Antique's fisherfolk
(Panay News,December 11, 2015 , on page 6)Aside from setting into sea at the onset of the El Niño phenomenon, more Antiqueño fisherfolk are engaging in solar salt-making as their alternative livelihood. Allette Gayatin, Antique Office of the Provincial Agriculture ... -
Senators seek dev't of 'diminishing' PH salt industry
(Manila Bulletin,January 19, 2023 , on page 6)Although it has a shoreline of 36,000 kilometers, the Philippines imports 93 percent or 550,000 metric tons of salt for its requirement. “We should look at the salt industry as an added income source to fishermen during ... -
West Africa sets out to protect dying mangroves
(BusinessWorld,March 12, 2010 , on page S3/8)Salt is precious in poverty-stricken coastal West Africa, but conservation experts say efforts to extract it are laying waste to mangrove swamps, causing erosion and ravaging fish stocks. In Sierra Leone, one of Africa's ... -
What happened to Occ. Mindoro’s salt industry?
(Manila Bulletin,May 30, 2017 , on page 4)Once known for its vibrant salt industry, Occidental Mindoro and its salt farmers are getting an ounce of help and a little push from the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) through innovative technologies in a bid ...