SALT. Salt sold in a local market in Antique province. Allette Gayatin, senior aqua-culturist at the Office of the Provincial Agriculture, on Wednesday (Feb. 8, 2023) urged local government units in Antique to provide salt-making sites along the coastal areas for salt-makers to produce more to be sold in the market.(PNA photo by Annabel Consuelo J. Petinglay) SAN JOSE DE BUENAVISTA, Antique - Fifteen of Antique's 18 municipalities have been pinpointed as ideal sites for salt production. Antique Provincial Board Member Rony Molina, who sponsored a resolution to revive the salt production industry in the province, said in an interview Wednesday that the 15 municipalities situated along the sea coast are ideal sites for salt production where residents used to engage in salt-making. "Salt production, like in the coastal barangays of San Jose de Buenavista, need to be revived so that we could increase our production and help solve the country's sad state," Molina said. He
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KOICA SUPPORT. Henry Michael Gonzalo Doliguez, president of the Kalipunan ng mga Magsasaka sa Patnongon Agricultural Cooperative in Patnongon, Antique said on Tuesday (Jan. 31, 2023) their cooperative is a recipient of a PHP100 million grant from the Korean International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) for the establishment of 10 greenhouses for the production of high-value crops. He added that they are requesting the provincial government to assist them in the development of the one-hectare area owned by the cooperative.(Photo courtesy of Henry Doliguez) SAN JOSE DE BUENAVISTA, Antique - The Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) will finance the PHP100 million ten greenhouses project of a farmers' group in the municipality of Patnongon, Antique. Kalipunan ng mga Magsasaka sa Patnongon Agricultural Cooperative president Henry Michael Gonzalo Doliguez, in an interview on Tuesday, said the greenhouse project would serve as their demonstration site for high-value crops. "The
KOICA SUPPORT. Henry Michael Gonzalo Doliguez, president of the Kalipunan ng mga Magsasaka sa Patnongon Agricultural Cooperative in Patnongon town, Antique province on Tuesday (Jan. 31, 2023) says their cooperative is a recipient of a PHP100-million grant from the Korean International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) for the establishment of 10 greenhouses to produce high-value crops. He said they are requesting the provincial government to assist them in the development of the one-hectare area owned by the cooperative.(Photo courtesy of Henry Doliguez) SAN JOSE DE BUENAVISTA, Antique - The Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) has provided a PHP100-million grant to finance the establishment of greenhouses for a farmers' group in the municipality of Patnongon, Antique. Kalipunan ng mga Magsasaka sa Patnongon Agricultural Cooperative president Henry Michael Gonzalo Doliguez, in an interview on Tuesday, said the 10 greenhouses would serve as their demonstration site for high-value
Onion farm in Barangay Sinaja, Belison, Antique (PNA photo courtesy of Ronald Ardeno) SAN JOSE DE BUENAVISTA, Antique - Farmers in Antique province must prioritize high-value crops (HVC) such as onion and garlic to prevent shortage and normalize prices. Board Member Rony Molina passed a resolution during the provincial council session Monday amid a "wide disturbing news of overwhelming price increase in the market of two of the HVC, namely onion and garlic." "As observed during the past years, the prices of these crops are stable, until of late that there was a shortage for reason of lack of cold storage facilities, and may be because of hoarding by some traders taking advantage of the abnormal situation such that the government has no recourse but to resort to importation to remedy and meet the demands in the market," Molina said in his resolution. Molina said plantingHVC is a better remedy than importation, which is disadvantageous to farmers. In a later interview