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Despite the ravages of storms, seaweed farming is transforming the lives of Filipino families in traditionally male-dominated fishing communities, turning women into family breadwinners who are paying for their children to go to college. - VnExpress International
"Cherish means to protect and care for what we have," Mardy Montano, president of the cooperative, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation as she rested after a day's work on a floating house in the midst of Palawan's turquoise waters. "That's how valuable seaweed farming is for all of us." Seaweed farming is the world's fastest-growing form of aquaculture and the Philippines is the fourth largest producer globally.
The Philippines is world's 4th largest seaweed producer Women seaweed farmers use money to educate their children Government to create more seaweed farmer
OCULAR INSPECTION. A team from the regional office of the World Bank-funded Philippine Rural Development Project visit remote Tamlang Valley in Sta. Catalina, Negros Oriental on Wednesday (Feb. 22, 2023). The PRDP inspected the road in line with a PHP400-million proposed concreting project. (Photo by Judy Flores Partlow) DUMAGUETE CITY - Governor Roel Degamo has added PHP100 million to the PHP300 million road network project that will connect four towns passing through hinterland villages that are affected by the Communist Party of the Philippines - New People's Army (CPP-NPA) insurgency. This comes as the World Bank-funded Philippine Rural Development Project (PRDP) and the Provincial Engineer's Office, along with other stakeholders, undertook on Wednesday the first of a series of ocular inspections at a portion of the road leading from Barangay Dobdob, Valencia to Sitio Avocado in Barangay Talalak, Sta. Catalina town. Provincial Engineer Maelene Jimenez said the governor deci