by magnolia_eic | Jun 28, 2011 | Headlines, National News
UGMA mopagawas og desisyon ang Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) kalabot sa hangyo sa pipila ka panaderya nga sakaan ang presyo sa pan. Matud pa ni Trade and Industry Undersecretary Zenaida Maglaya nga gitun-an pa nila ang hangyo nga dugang-presyo apan giingong dili sila magduha-duha nga aprubahan kini kun gikinahanglan gayud. Giangkon usab ni Maglaya nga nisaka ang presyo sa trigo sa world market mao nga mihangyo ang mga panaderya nga sakaan ang presyo.
Mahinumdoman nga gianunsyo na sa Philippine Baking Group nga sakaan og piso angpresyo sa ilang mga pan nga gibaligya sa mga supermarket ug panaderya sa sunod semana. Samtang miingon usab ang Philippine Federation of Bakers nga adunay gagmay nga mgabakery nga nagpasaka na og presyo sa ilang loaf bread. (PIA-Bohol/ecb)
by magnolia_eic | Aug 2, 2010 | Local News / Bohol Balita
CASH SALES, including booked and under negotiation purchases surpassed the P31.1M target for this year.
The Sandugo Regional Products Showcase 2010, which started as small provincial products fair in Bohol graduated to one of the region’s most awaited annual fairs. It proved anew the promise available for cottage industries as the materials fusion this year brings a million more in target sales, data from the trade department revealed.
From the department’s unofficial and yet reliable source, cash sales generated from the five-day showcase reached P2.81 million, booked sales racked up P17 million and another under negotiations reached P12.62 million to sum a gross sales of P32, 466, 836.00 a few minutes before the official closing of the fair last Sunday.
Now into its 21st year of showcasing raw materials form Visayas’ diverse environmental resource, the new lines produced our of its research and development initiatives lay out the agency’s efforts to be environmentally conscious about the finite resources, explains DTI information Officer Jojie Villamor during the fair pre-opening press conference last week at the Prawn farm of the Island City Mall.
Working with climate change and its mitigation, the new trend is to fuse recyclables with the indigenous raw materials and showcase the artistic capacity of Visayans to produce stunning designs for the international market, added DTI Provincial Director Ma. Elena Arbon.
We are presented here with a 50% cut in raw materials and another 50% cut in garbage as these [products] end up as hand-woven patterns in bags and fashion accessories, said DTI Regional Director Asteria Caberte at the media forum.
According to Arbon, the showcase marks the culmination of the product development initiatives geared towards providing importers with the raw materials that would make it big in the international markets.
The biggest winners however are the Visayan craftsmen who would ultimately get an increase in income to further boost their economic spending.
Raffia and pandanus, Bohol’s most hopeful raw materials are now slowly engaging rural families who see the promise of providing the designs for the next century’s world fashion. (rac/PIABohol)
by anyajulia | Oct 9, 2008 | Headlines, National News
SIMULTANEOUS with an urgent drive for consumers to take the switch for energy saving lamps, a local trade and industry divisions chief also issue consumer tips on picking the right products to maximize on benefits.
Go for products with the DTI Importation Commodity Clearance (ICC) for imported products of Product Standards (PS) label for locally produced commodities. Then, find the mandatory Department of Energy yellow energy label, DTI said.
The government drive for the big switch, punctuate the move to help consumer cut on power consumption amid rising power costs.
According to Department of Energy (DOE) sources, the program called “Palit Ilaw” is a government initiative under the National Energy Efficiency and Conservation Program and aims to goad consumers to switch to compact fluorescent lamps (CFL) as a strategy to cut on costs.
The program is also supported by the United nation’s development program-Global Environment Facility Philippine Efficient Lighting Market Transformation Project.
CFLs energy consumption is only 20 to 25% compared to an ordinary incandescent bulb with similar luminescence, said DTI’s Jose Hibaya during the recent Kapihan sa PIA, Thursday.
Using the same energy, an incandescent bulb produces only 20% light, and the 80% makes heat, he explained.
The switch to energy saving lamps however may not be as easy for the low priced incandescent lamps, Hibaya admitted as he pointed to the immediately visible price difference.
An 100 watts incandescent lamp is sold at P21, while a CFL giving off the same amount of light is sold at P150.
But the CFL burns out only after 5 to 6 incandescent bulb replacements.
The big difference however is on the savings, he stressed.
Using a table, Hibaya pointed out that a 60 watt light bulb, when changed to an 13 watt CFL heaps for the consumer P2,496 savings for every 6,000 hours of usage at the rate of P8.83 per kilowatt hour for residential use.
In the long run, it takes about five replacements of incandescent lamps over a single energy saver CFL, he bared.
At an average lifetime of 1000 hours, an incandescent lamp pales in comparison to the 6,000 hours of CFL service in its lifetime.
In the advent of sub-par products flooding the market, consumers however may fall prey to enterprising retailers who sell fakes, DTI warned.
Over this, Hibaya said scouting for the right products is still a consumer right, emphasizing the consumer welfare month the country celebrates in October.
He said consumers not wanting to be fooled into buying fakes should look for the DOE yellow energy label and the DTI ICC or the Products Standards mark which certifies that the commodity has passed the standards set by the DTI-Bureau of Product Standards (BPS) and the DOE Lighting and Appliance Testing Laboratory.
The ICC is issued to certify the product’s proper importation clearances before they are distributed in local markets, Hibaya said (PIA/rachiu)
