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Articles about Eighth Wonder Inc.and RICE, Inc. 2006

Oct. 10, 2006 -- Sun-Star Baguio
Ifugao exports 2.5 tons of 'tinawon' rice

A total of 2.5 tons of "tinawon" rice (Ifugao native rice) were sold to the US. This was an output of a close coordination with a foreign investor, the 8th Wonder Inc. of Montana, USA, said Provincial Environment and Natural Resources Officer Raymond Bahatan.

Oct 8, 2006 -- The Philippine Star
Cordillera Heirloom Rice Project
By Preciosa Soliven (Secretary-General, UNESCO National Commission of the Philippines)

With the UNESCO Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (DESD), we were looking for a model of a community project in the Ifugao Rice Terraces to be added to the UNESCO World Heritage Site (WHS) Endangered List.

August 20, 2006 -- Sun-Star Baguio,
3rd shipment of Kalinga 'unoy' rice to US readied

KALINGA province is preparing the third shipment of its renowned Unoy rice to the international market in Montana in the US after its demand has remarkably increased.

June 17, 2006 -- Philippine Daily Inquirer
US to import 1,000 kg of Kalinga ‘unoy’ rice
TABUK, KALINGA -- At least 1,000 kilograms of Kalinga’s unoy organic rice will be exported to the United States this month through a private marketing firm tapped by the local government here, an agriculture official said.

March 2006 -- Philippine Information Service
Kalinga Unoy due for shipment to US
TABUK, KALINGA (28 March) -- The second shipment of the province's premiere rice, Unoy, to the United States is due this October according to the Revitalized Indigenous Cordillera Entrepreneur (RICE) group.

Articles from 2005

School for International Training (SIT) alumni promote traditional rice farming in the Philippines

SIT graduates Mary Hensley and Vicky Garcia (both PIM 61s ) share photos from their work in the Philippines.
OurWorld Online Magazine, June 21, 2005

US opens market for Ifugao rice
By Vincent Cabreza , Oct 06, 2005
Inquirer News Service

BAGUIO CITY -- Organic rice grown on the centuries-old rice terraces of Ifugao province and the paddies of Kalinga province will soon be on the dining tables of families in the United States.

Arroyo wants uniform house design in terraces
By Vincent Cabreza , Jan 03, 2006
Inquirer News Service

BAGUIO CITY-President Macapagal-Arroyo, a frequent visitor to Ifugao's rice terraces, was so disturbed by the sight of shanties around the mountain farms that she asked local mayors on Saturday to implement a plan requiring a uniform design for structures there.

Articles on the Philippine Rice Terraces

Stairways to Heaven on the Verge of Crumbling
By Michael A. Bengwayan September 16, 2003

Hidden in the vastness of the Philippine Cordillera Mountains is a stairway to heaven, dubbed by the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) as the 8th wonder of the world.

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Philippines faces uphill battle to save wonder rice terraces
By AFP/P. Parameswaran

BANAUE, Philippines, Feb 26, 2003 - They are starkly embossed on peso bills and are a major tourist attraction, and yet the spectacular rice terraces north of the Philippine archipelago have been taken for granted by Filipinos.

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Ifugao farmers return to traditional farming
By Desiree Caluza, Inquirer News Service Aug 02, 2005

IT WAS in the 1960s when villagers of Nagacadan in Kiangan, Ifugao, last heard the kurimbatung or the rhythmic beating of the dipdipu, a percussion instrument made from hollowed wood and deer skin.

 

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