Nueva Vizcaya

BY LEANDER C. DOMINGO KASIBU's staging of the Second Citrus Festival 2024 reinforces its claim as Luzon's epicenter for the popular tropical fruit. Anchored on the theme "Deeper for Resiliency and Productivity," the festival held on August 8 showcased the outstanding contribution of citrus farmers to making Kasibu known for its vast plantations of citrus. It was on June 24, 2022 when Kasibu, Nueva Vizcaya, was declared the "Citrus Capital of Luzon" by then-agriculture secretary William Dar, paving the way for the municipality to celebrate the annual citrus festival to showcase the rich culture and bountiful citrus harvest of the town. Kasibu Mayor Romeo Tayaban, Vice Mayor Alberto Bumolo and members of Kasibu Sangguniang Bayan (municipal council) led the town in welcoming and ...

KASIBU, Nueva Vizcaya (August 15, 2024)— Didipio Mine's Social Development and Management Program (SDMP) beneficiary barangays (villages) presented their report on their respective accomplishments in implementing their Development of Host and Neighboring Communities (DHNC) programs. According to Didipio Mine, the SDMP beneficiary villages from the municipalities different municipalities in Nueva Vizcaya and Quirino provinces presented their reports to the Mines and Geosciences Bureau-(MGB) Region 2 and other stakeholders from August 14 to 15, 2024. During the event, the Didipio Mine's accounting team also briefed the SDMP beneficiaries on the flow of processing their billings while the engineering team clarified some issues and concerns regarding infrastructure projects this morning...

KASIBU, Nueva Vizcaya (August 11, 2024)—FCF Minerals Corporation has joined the three-day Citrus Festival in this town sharing the company’s best practices in its host Barangay Runruno and neighboring communities. “We're thrilled to have been part of Kasibu's vibrant three-day Citrus Festival having the privilege to set up a booth to showcase our best practices in the operation of the mine in Runruno,” FCF said. Showcasing the best practices in its host Barangay Runruno and neighboring communities, FCF Minerals Corporation joins the three-day Citrus Festival in Kasibu town in Nueva Vizcaya. CONTRIBUTED PHOTO The company’s Information, Education and Communication team showcased their best practices in the Social Development and Management Program or SDMP and their Environmental Pr...

Nueva Vizcaya coffee camps maintain high green grading results in the 2024 Philippine Coffee Quality Competition (PCQC). PHOTO COURTESY OF DTI NUEVA VIZCAYA BY BENJAMIN MOSES M. EBREO, PIA BAYOMBONG, Nueva Vizcaya (August 11, 2024)— Three coffee producers in Nueva Vizcaya have maintained the quality of their yields and earned the Outstanding Coffee Green Grading Results with zero to minimum defects at this year’s Philippine Coffee Quality Competition (PCQC). The PCQ-certified coffee producers are Bumolo’s Integrated Farm, owned by Juliet Bumolo; Bugkalot Coffee Growers Cooperative, represented by Solita Constantino; and Tiblac Farmers Agriculture Cooperative, represented by Mario Tayaban. The competition is an annual event that aims to identify the best quality coffee produced...

BAMBANG, Nueva Vizcaya (August 10, 20924)—To strengthen partnerships for river protection, conservation and management, the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) in Region 2 (Cagayan Valley) forged ties with at least five local government units (LGUs) of Nueva Vizcaya province. It signed a memorandum of agreement (MoA) to strengthen its partnership with the municipal mayors of Bambang, Santa Fe, Aritao, Dupax del Sur and Dupax del Norte. DENR Region 2 Executive Director Gwendolyn Bambalan said the MoA signed at the Ecological Park and Training Center in Barangay Darapidap in Aritao town aims to "effectively protect, conserve and manage the Santa Fe River in the province." She added that the MoA is an avenue for building partnerships that will be sustained for the prote...

FCF Minerals Corporation literacy facilitators conduct house-to-house visits in all sitio (sub-villages) Barangay (village) Runruno from July 16 to August 2, 2024 to map out Out-of-School Youths, Adults and Children to encourage ALS enrolment for School Year 2024-2025. CONTRIBUTED PHOTO QUEZON, Nueva Vizcaya—FCF Mineral Corporation conducted house-to-house visits in all sitio (sub-villages of Barangay Runruno here to map out-of-school youths (OSYs), adults and children and encourage them to enroll in the alternative learning system (ALS) program for the school year 2024-2025. From July 16 to August 2, 2024, eight literacy facilitators led by the FCF Minerals Corporation's Community Relations Office Education team members Raquel Mallari, Junita Bayaona and Lailanie Rafael. The tea...

BY BENJAMIN MOSES M. EBREO, PIA Some 8,881 elderlies from five municipalities in Nueva Vizcaya province receive their social pension benefits of P3,000 each from the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) for the third quarter of this year. DSWD PHOTO BAYOMBONG, Nueva Vizcaya (August 9, 2024)—The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) has distributed social pension benefits to poor elderly in this province. Joseph Abella, DSWD Project Development Officer said P3,000 has been given to 8,881 elderly beneficiaries of the social pension covering the third quarter of this year. He said the social pension was given to 1,197 elderlies of Quezon town, 1,717 in Villaverde town, 1,374 in Santa Fe town, 2,184 in Aritao town and 2,409 in Kasibu town. Abella sa...

BY BENJAMIN MOSES M. EBREO, PIA DPWH hastens ₱89.6M for the widening of Nueva Vizcaya-Benguet road in Barangay Kirang in Aritao, Nueva Vizcaya. PHOTO COURTESY OF DPWH REGION 2 BAYOMBONG, Nueva Vizcaya (August 9, 2024)—The Department of Public Works and Highways is doubling its efforts to fast-track the road widening of the Nueva Vizcaya-Benguet Road in Barangay Kirang in Aritao town. Engineer Agnes Lu, Officer-In-Charge of the DPWH Nueva Vizcaya 2nd District said the ongoing ₱89.6-million road widening project involves the expansion of the road system to a 4.8-kilometer stretch with a carriageway measuring 3.05 meters thick. The road works also include the installation of a Reinforced Concrete Pipe Culvert (RCPC) that is 43 meters long with a diameter of 910mm, a grouted ripra...

Department of Agriculture Undersecretary for High Value Crops Development Program Cherry Marie Natividad-Caballero visits the Nueva Vizcaya FAFFOGGA Cold Storage Facility at Barangay Nagcuartelan in Aritao town. CONTRIBUTED PHOTO DEPARTMENT of Agriculture Undersecretary for High Value Crops Development Program Cherry Marie Natividad-Caballero visited Region 2 (Cagayan Valley) particularly the province of Nueva Vizcaya on August 8, 2024. Caballero personally inspected and visited the ongoing construction of onion cold storage funded under the High Value Crops Development Program (HVCDP) located at  Barangay Santa Maria, Dupax del Sur town. Natividad-Caballero was assisted by town officials headed by Municipal Mayor Neil Magaway and members of farmers cooperatives and associat...

BFAR CAGAYAN VALLEY PHOTO BAYOMBONG, Nueva Vizcaya (August 8, 2024)—The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) office in Region 2 (Cagayan Valley) is sustaining its initiatives to boost the output of aquaculture in the region. A good example is in Kasibu, Nueva Vizcaya, where 57-year-old Simeon Rafael utilizes a pond-based technology demonstration project on the grow-out culture of tilapia. On July 25, Rafael got a partial harvest of some 100 kilograms of marketable-sized tilapia during the Harvest Field Day, a joint activity of BFAR Region 2 through the Provincial Fishery Office in Nueva Vizcaya headed by Jay-Arre Usquisa and the local government unit (LGU) of Kasibu. Usquisa said the harvest field day aims to showcase the economic benefits of growing tilapia in fis...