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==[[Southern Leyte News]]==
==[[Southern Leyte News]]==
'''Four public elementary schools now use DPWH’s rainwater collection project'''
'''Leyte eyes ‘ulang’ production hike'''
*Source: http://pia.gov.ph/?m=7&r=r08&id=73699
*Source: http://www.tempo.com.ph/2012/leyte-eyes-ulang-production-hike/#.TyKpDcX9nJc
*Tuesday, January 24, 2012
*Jan 27th, 2012
:by  Bong Pedalino
:by  Marvyn N. Benaning




MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte, Jan. 24 (PIA) -- Four barangays of this city, each one with an elementary school, stood as living beneficiaries of an innovative water impounding project built by the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) provincial engineering district here.
A farmer in Southern Leyte has taught his colleagues a lesson in entrepreneurship by making money on an enterprise based on freshwater prawn, also known as “ulang.”
“These rainwater collection structures were already finished in the first quarter last year, and since then it has been used by the school children, faculty and other personnel for their washing needs,” said District Engr. Carlos Veloso of the Southern Leyte Engineering District (SLED) in a press conference at his office on Tuesday.
Benjamin G. Gerona Jr. has trailblazed the culture of “ulang” along tilapia culture and vegetables in his town, which is hardly the base for such an enterprise.
Veloso identified the recipient schools as Batuan Elementary School, Tomoy-Tomoy Elementary School, Bilibol Elementary School, and Panan-awan Elementary School, all of Maasin City.
By doing so using an investment of P34,400, Gerona had a return of 32 percent.
Except for barangay Panan-awan, which is located along the national highway, barangays Batuan and Tomoy-Tomoy are located in the interior, upland section of the city, while barangay Bilibol lies along the coast near the boundary with Matalom.
This has encouraged officials of the Department of Agriculture (DA) and the Visayas State University (VSU) in Baybay City, Leyte, to find out if “ulang” production could be increased exponentially by putting up more hatcheries to remove one of the most critical hurdles in the expansion of prawn yield.
Scarcity of water for daily use like watering the garden and for general cleaning was one of the needs of these schools that were addressed by the water collection project, Veloso said, quoting one teacher who expressed appreciation for the initiative.
The target is actually the Japan market, which spends $2 billion annually in prawn exports, and hopefully win a bigger market share for the Philippines, which used to be a big prawn producer until viral diseases ruined the industry.
The structure looks like an elevated water tank with collection vessels linked to the school building’s roof gutters.
Thailand now supplies bulk of prawns for the Japanese market while the country bids to match its 7 percent share of the market in the 1990s. Thailand supplies 20 percent of the global prawn market.
Veloso said the four rainwater collection system has an appropriation of P191,065, and was put up by the contractor in 60 days.
VSU developed a technology for increased production of prawn and other commodities using Gerona’s system, consistent with the multicommodity enterprise as a development strategy promoted by the Bureau of Agricultural Research (BAR).
Of the entire engineering district in Region 8, it was only SLED which finished the project in time for President Benigno Aquino III’s State of the Nation Address (SONA) in July last year. It was also referred to as a SONA project, while all the other districts completed the same by the last quarter of the year, Veloso also said. (PIA-8)


==Photo Gallery of Southern Leyte, Philippines==
==Photo Gallery of Southern Leyte, Philippines==
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