De Yro stated that is Cagayan’s

De Yro stated that is Cagayan’s contribution to the increasing new fiber discoveries in international that these days took center stage at the Product and Technology Trade Fair in Tugeugarao City at some stage in the Aggao Nac Cagayan, an annual festivity of Cagayan province.

Garcia said that for the primary time, diverse products from the Bakong had been on display at the Aggao Nac Cagayan for sale on the sales space of Santa Teresita on the Capitol Grounds at some point of the festivity.

“We’ve been generating the products for the past 3 years and this 12 months we are now prepared to offer them for the Cagayano humans and the arena to peer,” Garcia said.

De Yro stated that whilst it's miles domestically known as Bakong in Northern Philippines, it's miles popularly regarded in Myanmar as Sumsum.

“The citizens of Santa Teresita have usually considered the Bakong as pests in the areas where they thrive specially inside the Laguna De Cagayan,” De Yro stated.

Garcia defined that it was in 2013 right after the First National Eco-Tourism Festival of the metropolis when the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI)-Product Development Design Center of the Philippines took samples of the plant for research.

Since then, Garcia stated, nearby ordinances had been enacted to shield the place and plant species.
“It is to the credit score of the exchange and enterprise branch that we have been able to unveil the monetary advantages of the plant,” she said.

HANGUANA Malayana

HANGUANA Malayana is a good source of fiber for numerous products together with items and housewares, textile, high grade paper, wall décor and other artworks and furniture, among others.

The metropolis of Santa Teresita in Cagayan province abounds with this plant regionally referred to as Bakong. In the Fifties, the town changed into formerly Buguey city’s Barrio Namunit, a historical vicinity that became believed to be the landing web site in 1557 with the aid of the Spanish conquistadores led by using Juan De Salcedo.

However, there are no statistics the plant was introduced by the Spaniards and began propagating them in a lake within the village then referred to as Barrio Namunit.

The Bakong plant is mainly found growing inside the Laguna De Cagayan (formerly known as Bangalau Lake) in Santa Teresita alongside the countrywide road connecting the Cagayan North International Airport in Lallo metropolis and the Cagayan Economic Zone Authority in Santa Ana town.

“You are without difficulty greeted by way of the dominant Bakong plant with its outstanding long wide leaves as quickly as you reach the region,” Benjamin De Yro, a product development consultant of the workplace of Mayor Lolita Garcia of Santa Teresita.