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Latest Articles MANERWAP TO QUENCH THE DROUGHT? PROTECTED ECOLOGY UNDER SEIGE SUY-UBAN AND THE LEGENDARY SERPENT THE MAKING OF THE AMBANGAL MINI HYDRO PLANT PCOS MACHINE TRAINING IN MP Custom Search

MANERWAP TO QUENCH THE DROUGHT? Contributed by: Glo Abaeo Tuazon email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Kadchog Terraces are not as green as it used to be. with the ill effects of El Nino, most of the fields in Bontoc and the Moutain province (as does the fields of Luzon) are drying up and waiting for Divine intervention to happen. pray for the rains the farmers plead. Baguio City. After the torrential rains late last year comes the drought. The phenomenon called El Nino is hitting the highlands severely, affecting agriculture in a most devastating capacity. The crops of corn, tobacco and rice are wilting and going to waste for lack of water. In the Cordillera alone it is estimated that about 8,000 hectares or more of farmlands are affected and the people are afraid it might even worsen if the rains will not come soon. Write comment (0 Comments) Read more...   PROTECTED ECOLOGY UNDER SEIGE Contributed by: Glo Abaeo Tuazon e-mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it The Forests of Bayyo, Mt. Province. Even the beautiful afternoon panorama may someday be clouded by the threats of forest denudation caused by logging and burning. The proud forest covers of the Mt. province may someday flop too without prevention. It is said that in the Mountain Province 80 percent of the land area is still forested. Though some parts have become central habitations for people, four fifths have managed to stay the way they were. The little portions that were made towns are almost always centralized, a few households straying further away to tend to their conquered lands. Write comment (0 Comments) Read more...   SUY-UBAN AND THE LEGENDARY SERPENT Contributed by: Glo Abaeo Tuazon email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Legends and myths are said to be borne out of the imaginations and beliefs of people. Whether they are true or not, at one time or another they served a purpose and somehow put certain mysteries to places and people. In a remote stony mountain cliff called Suy-uban in Bila, Bauko, their mythical creature was a serpent of some sort. The falls puts in enough water during the dry season, and fills up this pool. Ideal diving and swimming and picniking area. Write comment (1 Comment) Read more...   THE MAKING OF THE AMBANGAL MINI HYDRO PLANT Contributed by: Gloa Abaeo Tuazon email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Ambangal Mini Hydro Plant turnover ceremony Kiangan, Ifugao. The Ambangal Mini Hydro Plant was finally and formally turned over to the Provincial Government of Ifugao last January 25, 2010 for it to start commercial operations. Gov. Teodoro B. Baguilat Jr. was given the honor of accepting it for the province during the inauguration program after the joint agency ribbon cutting and after Hon. Macario C. Marasigan, the Assistant Secretary for the Department of Energy extended his speech. The $1 million  project, which is entirely funded by the E8, is expected to generate 1,443 MWh of energy annually, which corresponds to 18% of the province’s total energy demand. Write comment (0 Comments) Read more...   PCOS MACHINE TRAINING IN MP Contributed by: Glo Abaeo Tuazon E-mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Eartha Banosan conducts part of the training for PCOS machine being held in Bontoc, Mt. Province from February 1 til March of 2009 to ensure the complete knowledge of technicians during the elections. (/GAT)   Bontoc, Mt. Province. With election fever in the air, Mountain Province along with other provinces in the Cordillera Region is on its way training people who will be involved with the election process come May 2010. With the introduction of the automated election machine COMELEC and SmartMatic along with other partner agencies are into the process of screening, accrediting and training  applicants as to the mechanics of the PCOS machine and in general the election proceedings. PCOS stand for Precinct Count Optical Scan. The selection and training of the PCOS machine started February 1 and will push thru until March this year to be able to fill in all the 218 clustered precincts of the province plus some back up technicians. Write comment (0 Comments) Read more...   More Articles... GOV DALOG SUPPORTS MP CARAA DELEGATES CARAA’s barefoot runners went home with blistered toes and soles NCMB AND TUBA LGU SIGN MOA ON INDUSTRIAL PEACE The Gallant Igorots of Bataan The Ifugao Terraces Learning from Cinque Terre << Start < Prev 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Next > End >> Page 1 of 14

Cordi Links Government Sites CAR-based Sites Personals / Blogs CO Ads Trivia La Trinidad, Benguet is recognized as the Guinness World Record Holder for the "Largest Strawberry Cake" awarded during the Strawberry Festival in March 2004. In Pictures HEART BAGUIO/BURNHAM advocates sit it out and do weekly bonfire vigils at the Pine Trees of The World Park (back of Athletic Bowl) for more than a month now. Journalists and musicians and concerned groups and individuals gather to protest the killing of the trees and the park as well as preserve the use of the same for the people of Baguio City. (By Glo A. Tuazon)   Sadsadan morning view, Bauko Mt. Province   The Secret of the Tunnels, Balatoc Mines, Itogon, Benguet   Sunny side skies in Tublay, Benguet   Sacasacan Rice Terraces (By Glo A. Tuazon)   Cagubatan Enchanted eel, Tadian, Mt. Province (by Mary Jane Day-asen Aluyen)   Dusk at the Diplomat, Baguio City (by Glo A. Tuazon)   Boiling water... Bokod, Benguet (co)   Binga Dam, Itogon, Benguet (co)   Ingenuity of the wooden scooters and racers in banaue (by. Glo A. Tuazon)

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