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True to its mandate, the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) hails the outstanding micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) that were assisted under the Small Enterprise Technology Upgrading Program (SETUP), one of the flagship programs of the department that empowers MSMEs to level up.

For 2021 alone, 507 micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) were provided assistance and some 3,000 workers were provided employment, thus contributing to the upliftment of said local enterprises, especially during this time of the pandemic, DOST Undersecretary for Regional Operations Engr. Sancho A. Mabborang confirmed in an interview.

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Infected with a complex strain of technological and economic crisis, the Philippine vegetable industry has been referred to in an almost ‘comatose’ condition for so many years, and it threatens the country’s food security.

Some experts say that the present system of local agriculture is no longer suitable, especially in the vegetable industry, wherein, there’s the fast-growing population, increasing hunger demand, rapid development of rural areas to become urban jungles, global warming, and climate change.

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Proper fermentation in the production of coconut wine, known locally as lambanog, is important to prevent poisoning, and the local experts reiterate the warnings to distillers over the drink’s high methanol content.

Last December 2019, 300 individuals were reportedly hospitalized in the provinces of Laguna and Quezon, with signs of poisoning, after drinking lambanog with high levels of methanol.

‘Lambanog poisoning is caused by residual methanol, which in high levels becomes highly toxic for humans. Methanol is naturally occurring substance present during the distilling process, that should be separated and removed thereafter’, DOH said in a statement released in the last quarter of 2019.

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Among the most interesting treasures that make Batanes unique is their famous ‘Dibang’ or ‘Day -Old, Batanes Style Flying Fish’ that will surely give you the unique taste of ‘Home of the Winds’.

Photo Courtesy: PSTC Batanes/LGU Uyugan

To make this to-die-for local delicacy, salt is one of the important raw materials in the production of day-old dibang and salt production has become an indispensable activity in the local area. Because of this, intervention on the salt industry was identified to include iodization as specified in the ASIN Law [or the Republic Act No. 1872].