Ifugao ‘muyong’ seen answer to Philippine water shortage
By Maricar Cinco
A solution to the looming water shortage appears to have already been available several decades ago, right before our eyes.
A solution to the looming water shortage appears to have already been available several decades ago, right before our eyes.
Malacañang has exempted Ifugao’s rice terrace woodlots, called “muyong,” from the coverage of a nationwide log ban, which President Aquino imposed through an executive order in 2011, the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) said on Tuesday.
Residents of Hungduan town in Ifugao wore their G-strings and ritual garbs and went to the nearest river to join several native games to express gratitude for a good harvest this year.
An anecdote goes about a man and his first encounter with ancestral land titles in Baguio City. Acquiring land in Baguio is complicated, owing to a colonial American city charter that puts all alienable lands in the townsite up for auction.
This is a 25-year-old story so worn out from constant retelling that it begs for a proper ending.
Before an audience composed mostly of academicians, Kalinga elder Alonzo Saclag showed and explained that there is an appropriate song, gong-based music and dance for each festivity or activity in his community.
Teachers of 9-year-old Eroz TomLaz Cortez and his 7-year-old brother, D’Artagnan, asked their parents if this was finally the year they would get their haircut.
Eleven government soldiers and two residents of Ifugao were killed when suspected communist rebels ambushed the soldiers near the boundary of Gumhang and Binablayan villages in Tinoc town on Wednesday, police and military officials said.
The body of a Romanian tourist who went missing on Wednesday while he was swimming in a pool of a waterfall in Banaue, Ifugao, was found by rescue workers on Saturday morning, government reports said.
Civic groups, tourists and government workers continue to pitch in as Ifugao farmers begin preparing for the restoration of the Batad rice terraces in Ifugao, Gov. Eugene Balitang said here on Wednesday.
A technical engineering team sent to Ifugao last week by Agriculture Secretary Proceso Alcala has finalized a work plan for restoring the province’s rice terraces and for reviving its watershed, the agency’s Cordillera director said.
There was no doubt about one of woodcarver Nestor Anabon’s favorite things. When Edgardo Manda, head of the Philippine Bamboo Foundation, handed bayog bamboo to woodcarvers in Barangay Asin in Baguio City two months ago, Anabon knew what to carve.
Residents of the village of Batad in Banaue, Ifugao, will open their doors on Feb. 3 to tourists, as well as the country’s top businessmen, who have been invited to help rebuild centuries-old rice terraces that collapsed due to strong monsoon rains.
