Agri-fair, congress mark Buglasan Festival

Wednesday, October 19, 2011

FARMERS and fisherfolk from across Negros Oriental gathered in this city from October 13 to 14 for the Buglasan NegOrganic Farm Family Agricultural Fair and Congress.

The activity was held inside the Provincial Nursery compound to mark the ongoing Buglasan Festival of Festivals being celebrated in the city until October 23.

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The Buglasan Festival is Negros Oriental’s provincial fiesta, participated in by the province’s six component cities and 19 municipalities.

The festival highlights the Tourism and Agri-Fair theme booth presentations by local government units, corporate participants and educational institutions, the selection of the Festival King and Queen, performing arts competitions, open air band concerts, games and sports, a fireworks competition, and awards for the Most Outstanding Oriental Negrenses, among others.

The agri-fair featured various booth farm product displays from rural-based organizations whose members are composed of farmers, fisherfolk, rural improvement and 4-H clubs from Canlaon City down to Basay town, said Nittz Bangay, information officer of the Office of the Provincial Agriculturist.

Bangay said members of said organizations pitted their skills against each other during contests such as poster-making, dance/remix, Miss 4-H beauty pageant, extemporaneous speech, coco-based handicraft, Tilapia coco-based cooking, crab-catching, best tilapia sardines and a Vhong Navarro Look-Sing/Dance-alike contest.

Simultaneous sectoral activities were also held on the second day such as method demonstrations on organic fertilizer formulation, meat processing, vegetable salad or rice-based handicraft, locally-mixed feeds, and fish-catching.

The two-day event culminated with an awarding of prizes to the winners of the various contests, followed by a raffle draw aimed at raising funds for members of the rural-based organizations. (PIA)