Browsing The Manila Times by Subject "salts"
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BFAR: P100M alotted for salt production
(,August 30, 2022 , on page )The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) claimed that it allotted P100 million for salt production last year. "Last year, BFAR has set in motion a P100-million Development of the Salt Industry Project (DSIP) ... -
Collaboration eyed to revive PH salt industry
(,November 3, 2023 , on page )The Philippine Chamber for Agriculture and Fisheries (PCAF) urged all stakeholders and government agencies to work together to revive the local salt industry in light of the continuous decline in local salt production. ... -
Dying salt industry blamed on land conversion
(,October 27, 2022 , on page )The Philippine Association of Salt Industry Network (Philasin) on Wednesday blamed the massive conversion of agricultural lands into commercial, industrial and residential for the dying salt industry in the country. In a ... -
Health expert rejects proposal to repeal salt law
(,February 1, 2023 , on page )An endocrinologist and expert in nuclear medicine has called a proposal to repeal the law requiring the iodization of salt a "preposterous" idea. National coordinator for the Iodine Global Network Dr. Teofilo San Luis' ... -
Job generation seen with new salt industry law
(,March 21, 2024 , on page )The revival of the salt industry, through Republic Act (RA) 11985, or "Philippine Salt Industry Development Act," will generate thousands of new jobs, particularly in the countryside and coastal communities. Signed by ... -
Marcos signs salt law
(,March 18, 2024 , on page )President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has signed into law the “Philippine Salt Industry Development Act,” which aims to strengthen and revitalize the salt industry. The law, signed on March 11, is part of the administration’s ... -
Pangasinan Salt Center now a major supplier of salt products
(,August 27, 2024 , on page )The Pangasinan Salt Center (PSC) sold some 40,000 bags of agricultural grade salt fertilizer (AGSF) last week, making it a major supplier of the salt product barely seven and a half months after its first harvest. It was ... -
Pangasinan salt farm rehabilitation begins
(,June 30, 2023 , on page )The provincial government has begun the rehabilitation of a 473-hectare salt farm in Barangay Zaragoza here to enable it to start producing salt by November. Last week, village residents, who are beneficiaries of the ... -
Pangasinan to open salt farms for tourists
(,September 21, 2023 , on page )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% salt needs - Agri group
(,August 27, 2022 , on page )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 ...