Kabayan Party-list Rep. Ron Salo (left), AGRI Party-list Rep. Wilbert Lee (Rep. Salo's office, Rep. Lee's office) Members of the House of Representatives are eagerly awaiting the enactment of the proposed Philippine Salt Industry Development Act, which is...
Sen. Cynthia Villar said on Tuesday, Sept. 12, that passing the proposed Philippine Salt Industry Development Act is the Senate’s response to the plea for assistance from salt industry stakeholders to revitalize their dying sector. Sen. Cynthia Villar (Senate PRIB photo) Voting...
Voting 22-0, the Senate approved the proposed bill that seeks to strengthen and revitalize the salt industry in the country. Approved on the third and final reading is Senate Bill No. 2243 or the proposed or the proposed Philippine Salt Industry Development Act. "My wholehearted support and...
There is an urgent need to promote and preserve the Philippine’s artisanal salt to preserve the country’s strong salt-making tradition, Senate President Pro Tempore Loren Legarda said on Friday, September 8. The country's artisanal salt is an indigenous condiment that refers to unrefined...
BALLESTEROS, Cagayan – The Department of Agriculture (DA)-Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) has launched the development of salt industry project, also known as the "Oplan Asin: Pasiglahin, Sariling Ating Asin” in 2022 at Ballesteros, Cagayan on July 3-4, 2023. The project is...
Bicol Saro Party-list Rep. Brian Raymund Yamsuan (Facebook) Bicol Saro Party-list Rep. Brian Raymund Yamsuan is prodding the Senate to hasten the approval of its counterpart measure to the proposed Philippine Salt Industry Development Act, which is expected to create 100,000 jobs for Filipinos....
Camarines Sur 2nd district Rep. LRay Villafuerte (Facebook) Camarines Sur 2nd district Rep. LRay Villafuerte has underscored the significance of the House of Representatives' passage of two more Marcos administration priority bills before the sine die adjournment of the first regular session. These...
House Speaker Martin Romualdez (left), salt (Speaker's office, Unsplash) The approval of the proposed Philippine Salt Industry Development Act will help address "a sin"--that is, the Philippine's dependence on imported salt despite it being surrounded by salt water. With a vote of 287-0-0...
LINGAYEN, Pangasinan – The provincial government announced recently that it will start producing salt in a 473-hectare farm in Barangay Zaragoza in Bolinao by October. A SALT Farm in Pangasinan. (Liezle Basa-Inigo) Dhobie de Guzman, provincial information officer, said the provincial government...
( Unsplash) AGRI Party-list Rep. Wilbert T. Lee has welcomed the recent second-reading passage of the proposed Philippine Salt Industry Development Act, which seeks to address a big irony in the local salt industry. Embodied in House Bill (HB) No. 8278, the measure seeks to revitalize the salt...
Camarines Sur 2nd district Rep. LRay Villafuerte (Facebook) Did you know that the Philippines--despite its extensive coastlines--imports nearly 550,000 metric tons (MT) or 93 percent of its requirement for salt? As such, congressmen led by Camarines Sur 2nd district Rep. LRay Villafuerte, through a...
AnaKalusugan Party-list Rep. Ray Reyes placed a spotlight on Sunday, March 19 on Filipinos' unusually high--and downright unhealthy--salt intake. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), an adult should only have a maximum intake of less than 2,000 milligams (mg) of sodium per day. However,...
