Japanese volunteer bids goodbye to state university

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Jeremy Gawongna. Friday, March 16, 2012. Sun.Star Baguio except image

A JAPANESE national from the Japan Overseas Cooperation Volunteers (JOVC) culminated her two-year stay at the Ifugao State University (Ifsu) with a farewell program at the Ifsu Review Center on March 12.

JOVC is one of the programs of the Japan International Cooperation Agency aimed at providing technical assistance in developing countries.

Akiyo Kimura of Nagazaki, Japan assisted the university in executing the Nihongo class offered to students of Bachelor of Arts in Political Science.

Kiangan Peace and Order Council condemns highway robbery

Bus robbery in the Philippines

By Daniel B. Codamon/ Sunday 11th of March 2012/ Posted on PIA website except image

 

KIANGAN, Ifugao,Mar. 11(PIA) -- The Municipal Peace and Order Council (MPOC) here denounced the highway robbery committed by ten unidentified armed men at the road located in Sitio Indalmugan of Barangay Julongan this municipality  recently.

On Motion of Councilor Noel Dulnuan, Chair of the Sangguniang Bayan’s Peace and Order Committee,the MPOC passed a resolution condemning the robbery-holdup committed last February 26. It  stated that the hold-up incident perpetrated by these unidentified people was an act that is a serious crime in violation of the Integrated Area/Community Public Safety Plan which is the municipality’s blue print for the protection of lives and properties of the people within the jurisdiction of Kiangan.

Dacawi: A dash of Ifugao humor

By Ramon Dacawi, Benchwarmer, Friday, March 2, 2012

Published in the Sun.Star Baguio newspaper on March 03, 2012 except image.

(This revisit of a piece way back was triggered by an e-mail ribbing from Igorot Global Organization (IGO) president Ceasar Castro who dropped what he was doing to welcome me last October. He wondered what IGO would have in return for my sharing Ifugao jokes at its 9th International Igorot Consultation come April at the Baguio Country Club. The retelling is for all of you out there - Igorots and Cordillerans by birth, blood, marriage, sentiment, choice and heart - who reconnected recently, provoking a parody of William Bloyd’s line: There are places in the heart which do not yet exist, into which humor enters to give them existence.)

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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

Bachang

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.