Mining firm opts to adopt Ifugao Rice Terraces

Didipio Project of Oceana Gold

February 24, 2012 11:31pm


OceanaGold Phils. Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Melbourne, Australia-based OceanaGold Corp., urged other mining firms to adopt national heritage sites as part of their corporate social responsibility.
 
“We think that mining companies should not only mind the needs of the communities they are operating in, but also national heritage sites within the areas of their operations,” Jose Leviste, Jr., chairman of the mining firm, said in an interview Friday.
 

Tourism Booming In Ifugao

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By ELLSON A. QUISMORIO from Manila Bulletin Publishing Corporation except image
February 4, 2012, 8:06pm

     BATAD, Banaue, Philippines – Tourists here in Ifugao province agree: It’s more fun in the Philippines.
     So big a splash has the local tourism industry made that it’s now a bigger industry in Ifugao than agriculture, at least during the last five years, according to Department of Tourism-Cordillera Administrative Region (DOT-CAR) Regional Director Purificacion Suanding Molintas.
     “This is Ifugao, the main industry is tourism. Agriculture is only secondary,” said Molintas.
     Molintas bared that in the past, a whopping 90 percent of all the tourism-related revenue generated by CAR was centered on Baguio.

Road to save terraces leads to Ifugao homes

(Repost from Philippine Daily Inquirer except image) 28th January 2012

Batad restoration efforts

BAGUIO CITY—Residents of the village of Batad in Banaue, Ifugao, will open their doors on Feb. 3 to tourists, as well as the country’s top businessmen, who have been invited to help rebuild centuries-old rice terraces that collapsed due to strong monsoon rains.

Batad is home to the amphitheater-like terraces which have been enshrined by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (Unesco), together with the terraces in Kiangan, Hungduan and Mayoyao towns, as World Heritage Sites. Sections of these terraces are scarred by erosion.

IFSU holds training on rain-fed agriculture

(Repost from Sun.Star Baguio except image)

Friday, January 20, 2012

ICRISAT for 2020

THE Ifugao State University (Ifsu) conducted an in-country training course on Strengthening Rain-fed Agriculture Research, Development and Extension in the Cordilleras at the Ifsu Review Center on January 8–13.

This was in collaboration with the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (Icrisat), Department of Agriculture–Bureau of Agricultural Research (DA-BAR), and the Commission on Higher Education (Ched).

The training was participated by senior faculty and researchers of the State Universities and Colleges; Cordillera Administrative Region Research, Development, and Extension Consortium (SUCCARRDEC); senior researchers and staff of DA-Cordillera Field Unit; and provincial and municipal agriculturists of CAR.

Ifugao exceeds 2011 local revenue collection

(Repost from Sun.Star Baguio except image)

Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Philippine Tax Code

LAGAWE, Ifugao -- The Provincial Treasurer’s Office (PTO) here reported it has exceeded its target in its local revenue collection for 2011.

Provincial Treasurer Samuel Marinay said their record on local tax collection showed a great increase on real property tax, property transfer taxes and on sales revenue of the goods and products of the Provincial Government.

IFSU: Senator allots P1.8 million for study grants

(Repost from Sun.Star Baguio except image)

Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Sen. Koko Pimentel & CARASUC

LA TRINIDAD, Benguet - Around 600 students from six state universities and colleges (SUCs) in the Cordillera Administrative Region are set to be benefitted by scholarship assistance grant from the Priority Development Assistance Fund of Senator Aquilino Pimentel III.

Pimentel and officials of the SUC beneficiaries headed by Benguet State University (BSU) president Ben Ladilad formally signed the agreement for the scholarship last Thursday during BSU’s 26th Charter Day anniversary, where the senator was guest.

IFSU: Sangguniang Bayan adopts rules on operation of dorms

(Repost from PIA except image)

Credit to Ms. Zimmer

LAMUT, Ifugao, Jan. 19 (PIA) -- In response to the alarming problems of students, the Sangguniang Bayan(SB) here convened last January 17, 2012 to adopt a measure to preserve and protect their general welfare.

The SB presided by Vice Mayor Victomar Bunnol adopted the 'Dormitories and Boarding Houses Code in the Municipality of Lamut', which shall govern the rules and regulations for the operation and maintenance of dormitories and boarding houses to include government-owned boarding houses or dormitories.