THE Department of Agriculture (DA)’s Agricultural Training Institute (ATI) has launched a program seeking to capacitate and further involve the youth in the agriculture industry. Dubbed the Kapatid Agri Mentor Me Program (KAMMP), the program seeks to aid Cordilleran farmers aged 18 to 30 by providing mentorship opportunities. Mentors are [...]
BAGUIO City’s government is now accepting applications for licenses for recreational fishing at the Burnham Park Lake. City Environment and Parks Management Office (CEPMO) Supervising Administrative Officer Sandra Almag said that as of Monday, the city is now accepting applications for locals to enjoy fishing at the tourist spot. Applicants [...]
THE Court of Appeals (CA) has upheld the decision of a Baguio court to jail a duo transporting illegal lumber, striking down the duo’s appeals. The CA’s Thirteenth Division on June 10 affirmed the Baguio City Regional Trial Court (RTC) Branch 5 decision, issued on January 13, 2019, which saw [...]
THE Environmental Management Bureau (EMB) has cleared some 22 potential sites for landfills in the Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR) for potential use in addition to the nine current facilities used by the region’s almost 1.8 million residents. EMB Cordillera Director Maria Victoria Abrera said that of the 22 sites, 13 [...]
BAGUIO City has established a technical working group to facilitate the progression of the United Nations Development Programme – Department of Transportation (UNDP-DOTr) project on low carbon urban transport system (LCUTS). The LCUTS includes the transition to use of electric and hybrid vehicles, particularly Euro IV-compliant public utility vehicles (PUV) [...]
A STUDY by the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) claims that while Baguio has yet to meet its maximum capacity for tourists, its resources are already being stretched too thin for its needs. Based on the DENR’s Watershed and Water Resources Research Development and Extension Center (WWRRDEC) computation [...]
SOME 6,000 members of the agricultural sector in Benguet are now eligible to receive aid from the share of the Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR) in the excess and unallotted rice tariffication fund from the national government. Around 5,800 rice and corn farmers in Benguet out of the registered 87,662 will [...]
BAGUIO Mayor Benjamin Magalong said on Wednesday that the planned waste-to-energy project in Sablan is still proceeding but will take at least three years to accomplish. “The waste-to-energy will take years to build it up. To construct it, that would take about three years,” Magalong said. According to Magalong, the [...]
MEMBERS of the League of Associations at the La Trinidad Vegetable Trading Areas (LALTVTA) are supporting a suggestion to give the Department of Agriculture (DA) expanded powers explicitly to tackle agricultural smuggling. The suggestion comes from Albay Representative Joey Salceda, who is drafting a measure that would request the establishment [...]
THE Board of Investments (BOI) has greenlit First Ifugao Renewable Energy Corp.'s application to become a new developer of a P185 million hydroelectric power plant in Asipulo, Ifugao. Likud 2 Hydroelectric Power Project, capable of producing 0.56 megawatts (MW) worth of power, will begin commercial operations by September of next [...]