Stakeholders from abaca-producing provinces, traders and government agencies have recommended several priority measures to address issues hounding the abaca industry including the low buying price and low quality of abaca…
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Abaca farmers need more than aid from the government
To most Catandunganons whose knowledge of the abaca industry is limited to the seemingly endless line of fiber drying along the highway in northern towns, the 12,000-plus individuals who consider…
Dugui Too housewife used P3,000 savings to start handicraft business
Dugui Too, Virac housewife Arlene Panti Cabrera, who recently won as Best DOLE-Assisted Livelihood Project Implementer (Individual Category), started her coconut handicraft business using P3,000 savings from her previous job…
3,000 MT in “loose” fiber went unrecorded:
Abaca fiber production here declines for 5th straight year
Records of the Philippine Fiber Development Authority (PhilFIDA) show that abaca fiber production in the province of Catanduanes in 2022 fell for the 5th straight year to its lowest in…
Group targets longest abaca rope around 253-km circumferential road
A group of local artists has secured the support of provincial officials in their bid to land in the Guinness Book of World Records in 2024 for the longest rope…
Rep. Teves calls anew on BSP to maintain use of abaca fiber in producing peso bills
Talino at Galing ng Pinoy (TGP) Partylist Representative Jose J. Teves Jr. last week reiterated his call on the Bangko Sentral ng Philipinas (BSP) to continue using abaca fiber in…
TGP’s Teves urges BSP to continue use of abaca fiber in Philippine bank notes
Talino at Galing ng Pinoy (TGP) Partylist Congressman Jose Teves Jr. recently filed a resolution urging the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipines (BSP) to maintain the utilization of abaca fiber in…
The lamentable state of the abaca industry in Catanduanes
Last week’s distribution of P5,000 cash to qualified rice farmers in the province of Catanduanes is pursuant to Section 13 of Republic Act 11203, or the Rice Tariffication Law. Under…
Fiber output decreased by 23% since 2019:
Cat’nes’ abaca production dips to lowest in 10 years
Less than a year after Congress passed a measure declaring the province as the abaca capital of the Philippines, Catanduanes’ abaca fiber production has plunged to its lowest in the…
Here’s how the P69.9-M abaca revitalization project in Catanduanes will be implemented
Following the widespread damage inflicted by super typhoon Rolly on the abaca industry in the Bicol region in November 2020, the Philippine Fiber Industry Development Authority (PhilFIDA) allocated nearly P110…