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==Tawi-Tawi gears for 'Seaweeds Festival== | |||
*Source: http://www.mb.com.ph/articles/334878/tawitawi-gears-seaweeds-festival | |||
*September 19, 2011, 3:45pm | |||
:By Nonoy Lacson | |||
BONGAO, Tawi-Tawi, Philippines – The provincial government of Tawi-Tawi expressed its readiness to host the 10th Seaweeds Festival this year, as it assured visiting local and foreign tourists that the celebration would be better and more exciting than the previous years. | |||
Tawi-Tawi Governor Sadikul Sahali Monday said the provincial government has undertaken an extensive preparation for this year’s festival. | |||
The Seaweeds Festival has been integrated the 38th founding anniversary of the province that is scheduled to kick off on Saturday, September 24. | |||
Dubbed “Kamahardikaan Tawi-Tawi,” this year’s four-day celebration carries the theme “Sustaining Peace and Responsive Local Governance: Paving the Way to a Progressive Tawi-Tawi.” | |||
According to Sahali, he expects a bigger number of domestic and foreign tourists to witness the festival, as seaweed farmers from the municipalities of Sitangkai, and the nearby Sibutu committed to participate and grace the twin celebration. | |||
Sahali said Sitangkai accounts for about 70 percent of the country’s seaweed output, producing at least 4,000 metric tons of dried seaweed monthly. | |||
Seaweed farming in the island-town covers about 15,000 hectares, with 60,000 more hectares are being readied for high-quality seaweeds, Sahali said. | |||
In an effort to boost the seaweed industry in the province, Sahali said the provincial government has already drafted a scientific scheme in planting seaweeds, which they intend to implement next year – aimed at increasing the production and income of farmers in their respective localities. | |||
The new method, Sahali said, will provide farmers a projected average income of between P40,000 to P60,000 per hectare per year. | |||
With good farming methods and infusion of new technology to produce good quality seaweed, local farmers will now have a better chance of selling their produce at a higher price, the governor said. | |||
Sahali said the global prices of seaweed continue to remain high, but seaweed farmers here are still trapped in poverty despite the strong demand for their product in the global market. | |||
Roughly about 80 percent of the population or about 20,000 individuals in Sitangkai rely on seaweed farming for their living, and while the resources are there, this has not translated into an uptrend economic development for the marginal sectors,” according to the governor. | |||
But with an aim to develop the industry and improve the life of the seaweed farmers, Sahali had adopted a new system in the planting of seaweeds in Tawi-Tawi to overcome the farmers’ fear that the local production may be overtaken by other major seaweed exporting countries like Indonesia and Malaysia. | |||
Tawi-Tawi produced an estimated 500,000 metric tons of dried seaweed, supplying close to 60 percent of the world market, making the Philippines one of the world’s top seaweed producer, and world’s top carageenan producer. | |||
==Tawi-Tawi to celebrate 'Kamahardikaan' Festival== | ==Tawi-Tawi to celebrate 'Kamahardikaan' Festival== | ||
*Source: http://www.zamboangatoday.ph/index.php/news/13-top-stories/6226-tawi-tawi-to-celebrate-kamahardikaan-festival.html | *Source: http://www.zamboangatoday.ph/index.php/news/13-top-stories/6226-tawi-tawi-to-celebrate-kamahardikaan-festival.html | ||
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