We’ve been producing the products

We’ve been producing the products for the past three years and this year we are now geared up to give them for the Cagayano people and the world to peer,” Garcia stated.

De Yro stated that even as it's far regionally called Bakong in Northern Philippines, it's miles popularly known in Myanmar as Sumsum.

“The citizens of Santa Teresita have constantly taken into consideration the Bakong as pests in the regions in which they thrive in particular inside the Laguna De Cagayan,” De Yro stated.

Garcia defined that it was in 2013 proper after the First National Eco-Tourism Festival of the town whilst the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI)-Product Development Design Center of the Philippines took samples of the plant for studies.

Since then, Garcia stated, nearby ordinances had been enacted to guard the region and plant species.
“It is to the credit of the trade and enterprise branch that we had been capable of unveil the economic blessings of the plant,” she stated.

According to De Yro, researches made famous that the perennial rhizomatous herb is native to the Philippines, the Malay Peninsula, Palau and Australia.

Bakong only has  sub-species that grow from one to 2 meters tall recognized because the kassintu and anthelmintika. Its linear leaves are clustered at the bottom of the stem and have long perennial longitudinal veins.
He also said that with the assist of the DTI and the Department of Labor and Employment, the Bakong has grow to be an alternative source of livelihood amongst a few 500 individuals within the city who have been skilled to supply fiber from the plant.

Meanwhile, Nida Dela Cruz, municipal environment and natural assets officer of Santa Teresita stated three greater flora species alongside the Laguna De Cagayan await rediscovery.

Malayana is a good source of fiber

Malayana is a good source of fiber for diverse merchandise together with presents and housewares, fabric, high grade paper, wall décor and other works of art and furnishings, amongst others.

The metropolis of Santa Teresita in Cagayan province abounds with this plant locally referred to as Bakong. In the Nineteen Fifties, the town was formerly Buguey town’s Barrio Namunit, a ancient area that turned into believed to be the touchdown web site in 1557 by using the Spanish conquistadores led through Juan De Salcedo.

However, there are no facts the plant turned into delivered by way of the Spaniards and started propagating them in a lake inside the village then called Barrio Namunit.

The Bakong plant is in particular located growing inside the Laguna De Cagayan (formerly referred to as Bangalau Lake) in Santa Teresita along the country wide avenue connecting the Cagayan North International Airport in Lallo city and the Cagayan Economic Zone Authority in Santa Ana metropolis.

“You are without problems greeted by using the dominant Bakong plant with its prominent lengthy extensive leaves as quickly as you reach the location,” Benjamin De Yro, a product development consultant of the office of Mayor Lolita Garcia of Santa Teresita.

De Yro said that is Cagayan’s contribution to the growing new fiber discoveries in worldwide that currently took center level at the Product and Technology Trade Fair in Tugeugarao City throughout the Aggao Nac Cagayan, an annual joyful celebration of Cagayan province.

Garcia said that for the first time, numerous products from the Bakong had been on display on the Aggao Nac Cagayan for sale at the booth of Santa Teresita on the Capitol Grounds during the festivity.