NSO extends data collection on business, industry survey
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By Peter A. Balocnit
TABUK CITY, Kalinga, June 11 (PIA) - - The National Statistics Office (NSO) has extended the conduct of the Census on Philippine Business and Industries as survey teams had difficulty collecting data.
The survey started April 1 and was expected to finish May 31, Avelino Cadalig of NSO Kalinga and Apayao Field Office said. However, the survey deadline was extended to June 15 because business firm owners were not available when visited by NSO personnel.
He said target respondents also have no bookkeeper or accountant to supply the needed information in the questionnaire. “Our survey teams are back to the field to complete the census,” Cadalig said.
The NSO is also doing the manual processing of the 2012 census on agriculture and fisheries before submission to the NSO regional office for scanning.
Cadalig said they are all hands on for the editing, matching, coding, and verification of data gathered. “Data that need correction are being brought back by NSO’s contact field men for necessary changes,” he said.
After the provincial NSO is finished with its task, data will be forwarded to NSO regional office for scanning and back to the province for encoding. It will again go back to the region for further machine editing, Cadalig said. (JDP/PAB-PIA CAR,Kalinga)
Guidelines for "Gotad" tourism promotion and agro-industrial fair released
By Marcelo L. Lihgawon
LAGAWE, Ifugao, June 11 (PIA) -- The guidelines for tourism promotion and agro-industrial - fair has been released for better preparation and active participation of the municipalities in the “Ifugao Gotad 2013” celebrations.
The fair, which will open on June 17 and lasts for five days, intends to give more emphasis on tourism and promotion of local agro-industrial products of the province. The municipalities will also showcase their respective best tourist attraction sites.
The Department of Trade and Industry, Provincial Agriculture, Environment and Natural Resources Office, Provincial Veterinary Office, and Provincial Tourism Office are in- charge of the event.
The guidelines provide that there should be three display booth components that include food and agricultural based products, non-food and agricultural-based products and tourism that showcase the tourism spots and products.
Each municipality shall work with the space provided for which shall be the main focus of judging. Other small medium enterprises (SMEs) will be accommodated within the premises but shall not part of the judging.
Tourism booth shall be handled by the municipal local government unit while the mayor or tourism office for the tourism booth, barangay food terminal operators for the agro-booth and the industrial component booth shall be manned by entrepreneurs with mayor’s permit and registered under DTI.
All products must be properly labeled with the name of the product, price and producer. Judging shall be done any time during the duration of the agro-industrial fair. (JDP/MBL-PIA CAR, Ifugao)
Pag-IBIG Fund to bring anew mobile services in Ifugao
By Marcelo L. Lihgawon
LAGAWE, Ifugao, June 11 (PIA) -- The Pag-IBIG Fund is set to bring anew its mobile services in this municipality on June 15 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the municipal government building here.
Among the services offered are acceptance of application for membership contribution, multi-purpose loans, and housing loan payments.
They will also accept applications for membership, provident claims, multipurpose and housing loans. Pag-IBIG will also conduct verifications of memberships and loan status, specimen signature and consolidation of forms, and counseling of their different programs and services.
The mobile service started last March 2012 and continued this year for the benefit of Pag-IBIG Fund members in the province. (JDP/MBL- PIA CAR,Ifugao)
Kapangan’s low-cost technology wins Best Presentation Prize in international conference
By Susan C. Aro
LA TRINIDAD, Benguet, April 1 (PIA) -- A presentation paper on improvised low-cost water, sanitation and hygiene project in Kapangan municipality in Benguet was adjudged as “Best Presentation Prize” in an international conference in Thailand.
Kapangan Municipal Agrarian Reform Officer Dr. Jane Toribio garnered the “Best Presentation Prize” on the paper she presented entitled, “Barangay Integrated Development Action in Kapangan towards Water, Sanitation and Hygiene” (BIDA KA WASH!) in the First Asia Future Conference (AFC) held at Centara Grand Hotel, Central Park, Bangkok City, Thailand from March 7-11, 2013.
Toribio was awarded the “Best Presentation Prize” among the 216 presentations during the cnference along with other two Filipino delegates, Dr. Max Maquito of Sekiguchi Global Research Association (SGRA) and Dr. Rowena Baconguis of UP Los Baňos who both received the “Best Paper Award.”
The Asia Future Conference aims to provide a large-scale venue for exchange of experiences and presentations by foreign students of Japan as well as representatives from various educational and social institutions in Asia and other countries in the world, relative to the theme “Asia in the World: Potentials of Regional Cooperation
Kapangan Mayor Roberto Canuto who led his town's delegation said the paper was endorsed by the University of the Philippines for the International Conference.
Accordingly it was the first time a municipality presented in an international conference as such normally accommodated were research papers from institutions.
Canuto said there might be a possibility that representatives from other countries who joined the conference will visit the town to validate and observe the project and validate project implementation for possible funding.
Toribio in her paper shared the experiences, gains and benefits on the implementation of the low-cost technology. The presentation dealt on the municipality’s popular short-term but high impact community-managed potable water supply (CPWASH) project, highlighting the major output that includes the installation of WASH Facilities like water tanks, bio-gas digesters, bio-sand filters, iron-removal filters and the spring box in the five pilot barangays in Kapangan.
Canuto said the technology was piloted in five barangays of Kapangan namely Sagubo, Pongayan, Pudong, Taba-ao and Balakbak for community use and is being replicated among individual households.
As low-cost technology, it makes use of indigenous materials and ferro cement which is a mixture of Portland cement applied over layers of woven steel mesh and steel bars. (JDP/SCA- PIA CAR,Benguet)