Tag page - Salt production

Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) Undersecretary for Employment and Human Resource Development Cluster Carmela I. Torres (center) leads the awarding of a P1-million training fund to Pacific Farms, Inc. on February 28, 2025. The initiative, under the DOLE Adjustment Measures Program (AMP),...

Although it has a shoreline of 36,000 kilometers, the Philippines imports 93 percent or 550,000 metric tons of salt for its requirement. “We should look at the salt industry as an added income source to fishermen during the dry season and the possibility of exporting Philippine sea salt,”...

Aside from sugar, the Philippines is now also experiencing shortage of salt, an official of the Department of Agriculture (DA) disclosed on Tuesday, Aug. 23. This is the reason, according to DA Undersecretary Domingo Panganiban, why they will be including P100 million. in the 2023 national budget...

The Department of Science and Technology (DOST) officially launched its salt production and iodization project in Batanes. (Photo by Charles Deluvio on Unsplash) The DOST-II through the Provincial Science and Technology Center (PSTC) in Batanes launched the project in the island province’s...