The local government of Oriental Mindoro has distributed seeds to at least 10,000 households to urge them to go back to farming and make use of vacant lands to plant vegetables or herbs.
Anyone who would be found to have sold their farm lots would be stripped off their right to the said farm lot and that farm lot “will be confiscated and redistributed to another qualified farmer-beneficiary.”
A school in Laoag has installed its first very small aperture terminal (VSAT) satellite communication system that provides direct internet access to schools nearby.
Pineda said on Thursday that the income from taxes and fees in quarrying will be put into the provincial government’s general fund to help contain COVID-19.
Only the household beneficiaries in Pangasinan will receive the second tranche of the social amelioration program (SAP) among the provinces in the entire Ilocos Region.
With the global threat of the COVID-19 pandemic, “growing your own food” has become the new normal for some women of the north, making use of any available space to shorten food trips to the market.