Thursday 30 July 2020

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.

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