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==P300 Million steel bridge to be completed in Bongao== | |||
*Source: http://www.zamboangatoday.ph/index.php/news/13-top-stories/8779-p300-million-steel-bridge-to-be-completed-in-bongao-.html | |||
*Wednesday, 22 February 2012 11:10 | |||
:by Nonong Santiago | |||
BONGAO, Tawi-Tawi - Through the initiative of Gov. Sadikul Sahali, a P300 million modern steel bridge will soon be completed that will connect the island of Bongao to the mainland of Tawi-Tawi Province. | |||
Sahali disclosed the money for the multi million peso project came from the national funds of the Department of Public Works and Highways under the helm of former DPWH secretary Hermoheges Ebdane. | |||
The governor said the implementation of the bridge started early last year and was supposed to be completed on the month of July but was hampered due to incessant rains. | |||
“The local DPWH said the project is now 80 percent finished. I hope they will complete the project as soon as possible as this will surely boost the socio-economic activities of the whole province,” Sahali emphasized. | |||
Sahali boasted the bridge’s completion will greatly enhance economic development of the populace because trading will be done by land transportation and not by sea crafts. | |||
“Many times people living on the northern side of the island finds it difficult to transport their products by pumpboat because of big waves. With the bridge completion people can travel easier and faster using vehicles. So we can now travel from Bongao to the mainland and vice versa,” Sahali emphasized. | |||
He said the main bridge has a length of 370 meters with two smaller steel bridges connecting the mainland to the island of Sanga-Sanga through the barangay of Lapid-Lapid. | |||
Sahali, who was also former mayor of Panglima Sugala Municiplaity said once completed the bridge will serve as a vital link of Bongao and other municipalities that will surely enhance commerce and industry which will result to progress. | |||
The active and visionary governor has also appropriated millions of pesos for the concreting of farm-to market-roads in the province for easy transport of goods by farmers and traders. | |||
“If we have a modern bridge linking the province we should also have good roads for easy access,” Sahali continued. | |||
==Tawi-Tawi Advocates Rubber Tree Cultivation== | ==Tawi-Tawi Advocates Rubber Tree Cultivation== | ||
*Source: http://www.mb.com.ph/articles/352112/tawitawi-advocates-rubber-tree-cultivation | *Source: http://www.mb.com.ph/articles/352112/tawitawi-advocates-rubber-tree-cultivation | ||
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It was also learned that majority of farmers in the province are presently engaged in the planting of cassava and fruit-bearing trees, like mango, durian, rambutan, mangosteen, and also into seaweed farming. | It was also learned that majority of farmers in the province are presently engaged in the planting of cassava and fruit-bearing trees, like mango, durian, rambutan, mangosteen, and also into seaweed farming. | ||
==A river once ran through it== | ==A river once ran through it== | ||