No Ubi Fest but can still
buy Ubi at Old Airport

Due to the super typhoon “Odette” and the Local Government Units (LGUs) have been very busy in the relief
and rehabilitation efforts, the Ubi Festival cannot be conducted this year.
The Ubi Festival is one of the annual activities of the Provincial Government of Bohol (PGBh) every 3 rd  week of
January which aims at recognizing and awarding the Ubi growers who have been helping the PGBh to sustain the
Ubi industry in Bohol.
However, Assistant Provincial Agriculturist Larry M. Pamugas said that the buying public can still buy Ubi
tubers in big volume at the Old Tagbilaran City Airport starting tomorrow until supply lasts.
Pamugas emphasized that only Ubi products from the members of the Bohol Ubi Growers Associations (BUGA)
are allowed to be displayed and sold at the Old Airport.
He added that the conduct of Ubi Festival has a lot of preparation which could be hardly done by the LGUs
whose times have been focused on the relief operations and restoration of the devastation brought about by Odette.
Pamugas also clarified that not only Ubi tubers can be sold at the old airport but also other root crops like
cassava, camote, apale, gabi among others.
The assistant Provincial Agriculturist stressed that if there had been no Odettete that hit Bohol even though there 
is still a threat of COVID-19 like last year, the PGBh through OPA could conduct Ubi Fest this year.
Regularly, the Ubi Festival has been participated by the LGU of Tagbilaran City, Dauis, Panglao, Baclayon,
Sikatuna, Corella, Cortes, Antequera, Loon, Carmen, Pilar, Ubay, Sevilla, Loay, Dimiao, Balilihan, San Isidro, San
Miguel, Valencia, Jagna, and Anda.
The selling of Ubi at the Old Airport tomorrow coincides with the launching of the “Kadiwa on Wheels” in
Bohol this year wherein fruits, vegetables, root crops and fish products from Davao and Zamboanga Regions will be
sold such project is in partnership with the province of Bohol. ( with report from Atoy Cosap)
  
DA Sec. Dar arrives this afternoon
 
The Department of Agriculture (DA) Secretary William D. Dar will this afternoon in the province to lead the
turnover of the different projects of DA to the Provincial Government of Bohol (PGBh) among others.
 Assistant Provincial Agriculturist Larry M. Pamugas said that Sec. Dar will stay overnight in Bohol to lead the
ceremonial turnover of the different projects of the department to the Provincial Government of Bohol (PGBh)  and
to give assistance to the Boholano farmers.
According to the news posted by DA’s Facebook Page, Sec. Dar will lead the ceremonial awarding of the cash
subsidy to 52,818 Boholano rice farmers amounted to more than P264M under the Rice Farmers’ Financial
Assistance (RFFA) program who are duly registered at the Registry System on Basic Sector (RSBSA) during the
program to be held tomorrow morning at Bohol Island State University (BISU) Tagbilaran City Main Campus.
The equipment to be turned over by Sec. Dar to the PGBh are the 5 hauling trucks worth P9.3M from the rice
program and the agribusiness and marketing assistance division, corn seeds worth more than P8M, farm-to-market-
road for 7 local government units worth more than P70M, and the combined interventions from the Special Area for
Agricultural Development program and the Balik Probinsya program worth P1.4M.
Other equipment to be turned by the sec. to the PGBh and BISU System is for the Bohol Soils and Water
Laboratory Center from the Bureau of Soils and Water Management (BSWM) to be constructed in BISU, Bilar
Campus.
The Assistant Provincial Agriculturist added that also in the program that Sec. Dar will sign the Memorandum of
Agreement (MOA) between Gov. Art C. Yap regarding the Province-led Agriculture and Fisheries Extension
System (PAPES) programs for Bohol.
Bohol is one of the pilot provinces on PAPES program of the Department of Agriculture wherein according to Dar
could expect more projects to pour in.
Before leaving for Manila, the Secretary will launch the Kadiwa on Wheels at the old Tagbilaran City Airport at
1:30 p.m. selling indigenous fruits such as durian, marang, pomelo, rambutan, root crops and various vegetables at
low prices from Agbu Farmers’ Association, Davao Farmers’ Cooperative, First Consolidated Cooperative and the
Ulay Argo Enterprises.
The Kadiwa on Wheels will be participated also by the traders and entrepreneurs from Zamboanga Region that
will be selling fresh and dried fish.

The Ubi tubers from the Bohol Ubi Growers Association (BUGA) will also be sold at the old Tabilaran City
Airport.
On Tuesday, the Mobile Market will be going to Dauis, Albur, and Loay and on Wednesday at the Bohol
Agricultural Promotion Center (B-APC) for the market matching between the producers from regions 9 and 11 and
organized exhibitors of the ART Tabo sa Bohol and the Cooperatives  have been engaging retailing program. (Atoy
Cosap)