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Have you ever wondered just how many gifts you would end up with if someone were to give you all the gifts mentioned in the song, âThe Twelve Days of Christmas?â
Well, when tallied up it comes to a whopping 364 gifts which, in addition to dozens of swans, provides you with 12 pear trees that will help you to celebrate National Pear month.
Boasting 3,000 different varieties in the world today, pears also hold title to being considered the worldâs oldest cultivated fruit.
Traced back to 5000 BC, when Feng Li, a Chinese diplomat, became consumed with grafting pears, and other fruits and nut trees for profit, also worth noting is that pears were touted as âthe gift of the godsâ by Homer in The Odyssey.
MOA for Cagayan River rehabilitation inked December 11, 2020, by Eldin Ganic
A Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) between the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) and two operator-dredgers for the rehabilitation of the Cagayan River was inked earlier this week, meaning that this very important project will start soon, reports the Philippine News Agency.
The MOA on the Cagayan River Restoration Project was signed by DENR through Cagayan Valley regional executive director Gwendolyn Bambalan and the Great River North Consortium managing head Antonio Talaue, and president Feng Li of Riverfront Construction Incorporated.
In 2017, President Rodrigo Duterte directed the dredging of heavily silted rivers in the Philippines including the Cagayan River, the country’s longest and biggest river.
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TUGUEGARAO CITY, Cagayan: Two dredging companies have forged an agreement with the Philippine government on Thursday to rehabilitate the heavily silted Cagayan River for free and without any expenses to be incurred by the government, according to the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR)
Signatories to the memorandum of agreement (MoA) on the Cagayan River Restoration Project (CRRP) Antonio Talaue, Great River North Consortium (GRNC) managing head, and Feng Li, Riverfront Construction Inc. (RCI) president. Representing the DENR was Executive Region 2 Director Gwendolyn Bambalan of Cagayan Valley.
âThe proponents will be shouldering all the expenses related to the dredging activities,â Bambalan said.