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AGRI-ENTREPRENEURSHIP. Members of the Northern Bayambang Multi-purpose Cooperative pose in front of the tractor given by the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) in 2021. The group currently has a new venture with Jollibee Group Foundation through the assistance of DAR. (File photo courtesy of DAR Pangasinan) BAYAMBANG, Pangasinan - Members of the Northern Bayambang Multipurpose Cooperative (NBMPC), a group of farmers who mostly are agrarian reform beneficiaries in this town, are excited about their new venture with Jollibee Group Foundation with the assistance of the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) and the local government unit (LGU) as they go into entrepreneurship. Composed of 191 members at present from the initial 16 members when the cooperative started in 2011, the farmers are into planting rice, corn, onion and other vegetables. "We have joined a federation of cooperatives who are into consolidating products to sell through collective marketing," Jesus Lavarias, man ....
ASINGAN, Pangasinan - The National Housing Authority (NHA) is set to construct a two-storey student dormitory in this town this year for students from the indigenous communities. "Ito ay para hindi na mahirapan ang mga estudyante na nanggagaling pa sa malalayong lugar. 'Yong building ay nasa mismong compound na ng school (This is for the students who are coming from far-flung areas so it wouldn't be so inconvenient to them. The building will be within the school compound)," NHA Ilocos Region and Cordillera Administrative Region manager engineer Maria Belinda Sevalla said in a phone interview on Thursday. Sevalla said the students' dormitory project costs PHP20 million. The lot is a property of the Pangasinan State University. "Approximately, there will be 14 rooms with 64 beds for the IP (Indigenous People) students," she added. Meanwhile, the local government unit of Asingan proposes a resettlement assistance program for the residents in the town whose ....