PROJECT SPLIT. A total of 94 Pangasinense farmers receive individual land titles at the Sison Auditorium in Lingayen town on Friday (April 8, 2022). The parceling was made under the project Support to Parcelization of Lands for Individual Titling (SPLIT) of the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR). (Photo courtesy of Province of Pangasinan) LINGAYEN, Pangasinan - About 94 farmer-agrarian reform beneficiaries (ARBs) in the province of Pangasinan have received their computerized land titles through Project SPLIT or the Support to Parcelization of Lands for Individual Titling of the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR). DAR Undersecretary for Foreign-Assisted and Special Projects Office, Virginia Orogo, in her speech during the distribution on Friday, called on the recipients to "take care of the lands given to you" as she assured the continuance of the distribution of individual land titles to ARBs or landless agricultural workers. This was also the call of Pangasinan Governor Am
FISH SANCTUARY. The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources, the provincial government of Pangasinan, and the Lingayen municipal government deploy some 45 concrete artificial reefs two kilometers away from the shore of Lingayen beach on March 7, 2022. The artificial reefs are part of the newly-launched Lingayen fish sanctuary. (Photo courtesy of Province of Pangasinan) LINGAYEN, Pangasinan - Some 45 units of concrete artificial reefs were deployed at the marine protected area here as part of the inauguration of the Lingayen fish sanctuary onMonday that aims to boost fish production in the province of Pangasinan. In a statement issued by the Lingayen Municipal Information Office, Department of Agriculture Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (DA-BFAR) officer-in-charge Rosario Segundina Gaerlan said the project would help increase fish productivity in the area and further improve the marine ecosystem. "Heto pong mga artificial reef po natin ay makakatulong sa ating mga mangi
MALASIQUI, Pangasinan - Establishments in Pangasinan can now operate at full capacity while curfew hours have been adjusted after the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID) placed the province under Alert Level 1 from March 1 to 15. In Executive Order (EO) No. 15 issued on Monday, Pangasinan Governor Amado Espino III said all private offices and workplaces, as well as agencies and instrumentalities of the government, may operate at full 100 percent capacity, consistent with national issuances on vaccination requirements for on-site work. However, face masks shall still be worn properly at all times except when eating and drinking in the team or individual sports in venues where ventilation standards can be maintained, and in outdoor sports or exercise activities where physical distance can be maintained. There must be regular disinfection of high-risk areas, such as but not limited to areas for gatherings, highly touched surfaces, and freq
MALASIQUI, Pangasinan - The provincial government of Pangasinan is implementing a temporary total ban on the entry of all quails and ducks into the province until March 31 amid the reported Avian Influenza or bird flu in the provinces of Bulacan and Pampanga. In Executive Order (EO) No. 14 issued on Feb. 25, Pangasinan Governor Amado Espino III said there is an urgent need to impose the ban to safeguard its poultry industry and to protect the general public from the ill effects of the disease. "The Department of Agriculture (DA) through the Bureau of Animal Industry (BAI) through its Animal Disease Diagnosis and Reference Laboratory (BAI-ADDRL) conducted a test of those affected birds using the real time-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) and were tested positive of the Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) H5N1 strain, commonly known as Bird Flu; the confirmatory test was confirmed by the DA-BAI thru the DA Communications Group posted on February 22 on the DA Website," th
LINGAYEN, Pangasinan – Concrete artificial reefs will be deployed soon at the seabed of the Lingayen beach to create a fish sanctuary and boost the livelihood of fisherfolk here. Lingayen Mayor Leopoldo Bataoil said the artificial reefs will be placed two kilometers away from the shoreline. “Throu