tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-48962682363435937192023-11-15T22:38:49.844-08:00Science City of MuñozNueva Ecijahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15041133481636854466noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4896268236343593719.post-58939824089096317522011-04-20T00:39:00.000-07:002011-04-20T00:40:04.778-07:00Meet Ecija’s ‘Rice Coffee Queen’<div class="KonaBody"><a href="http://munozcity.blogspot.com/">SCIENCE CITY OF MUÑOZ</a>, Philippines—When Leticia Basubas of Barangay (village) Maligaya here decided that producing coffee from rice was her likeliest road to success, not a few raised their eyebrows and scoffed at her business sense: “Who will buy your coffee?” “Where will you sell it?” “It will not succeed as it is just an ordinary product.” “Anybody can produce it in the kitchen.”<br /><table class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: left;" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody> <tr> <td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMlAhoMegezhbvCmwwykgJqD7_PfkYCL_eeFR6Owrms95glqQRCtjsZBX02UGsAuWDrMF_q68mI88QWCLsxYisrw1JJT_L4kf-SBekHzKu8EMqcQv7Fxf1JaH6jl6IHRqKffCRkjjbC-Fu/s1600/rice+cofee+queen.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMlAhoMegezhbvCmwwykgJqD7_PfkYCL_eeFR6Owrms95glqQRCtjsZBX02UGsAuWDrMF_q68mI88QWCLsxYisrw1JJT_L4kf-SBekHzKu8EMqcQv7Fxf1JaH6jl6IHRqKffCRkjjbC-Fu/s1600/rice+cofee+queen.jpg" border="0" /></a></td></tr> <tr> <td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">RICE coffee queen Leticia Basubas is about ready to send these sacks of rice for roasting, grinding and packaging into organic coffee. She uses 20 to 25 sacks of rice for her rice-coffee business. <i>Photo by Anselmo Roque, Inquirer Central Luzon</i></td></tr> </tbody></table><br />These were some of the reactions that reached Basubas in 1998 when the Green Ladies of Maligaya, a women’s club of which she was president, displayed its wares at a rice exhibit sponsored by the Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice).<br /><br />PhilRice was then introducing rice by-products as potential side enterprises for neighborhood farmers, and the institute had vouched highly for rice coffee, much as it did <span style="color: blue; font-family: arial,verdana,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 400; position: static;"><span class="kLink" style="color: blue; font-family: arial,verdana,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 400; position: relative;">rice </span><span class="kLink" style="color: blue; font-family: arial,verdana,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 400; position: relative;">wine</span></span> and rice-based chiffon <span style="color: blue; font-family: arial,verdana,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 400; position: static;"><span class="kLink" style="color: blue; font-family: arial,verdana,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 400; position: relative;">cake</span></span>, <i>butsi</i> and <i>puto pao</i>, rice brownies, rice waffles, rice nougat, rice-enriched pasta and rice <span style="color: blue; font-family: arial,verdana,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 400; position: static;"><span class="kLink" style="color: blue; font-family: arial,verdana,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 400; position: relative;">noodles</span></span>.<br /><a name="more"></a><br /><br />Basubas, an agriculture graduate, was determined to pursue her “<i>kapeng bigas</i>” business. At that time she was working as a PhilRice administrative assistant. She eventually resigned from her job to plunge into rice-coffee making.<br /><br />Today, her rice coffee and various other products are finding their way to the markets of Luzon, parts of the Visayas and very soon in Mindanao. Basubas learned that rice-coffee making involved no intricate technology. All she needed to do was roast to a near-burn a vat of uncooked rice, which was grounded up into fine particles that could be boiled into aromatic coffee. It is the simplicity of the procedure that appealed to Basubas. She says the rice-coffee market is filled with people in the community who relish the rice <span style="color: blue; font-family: arial,verdana,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 400; position: static;"><span class="kLink" style="color: blue; font-family: arial,verdana,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 400; position: relative;">coffee</span></span> served by their grandmothers. The home-made brew had become a specialty <span style="color: blue; font-family: arial,verdana,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 400; position: static;"><span class="kLink" style="color: blue; font-family: arial,verdana,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 400; position: relative;">beverage</span></span> owing to the abundance of <span style="color: blue; font-family: arial,verdana,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 400; position: static;"><span class="kLink" style="color: blue; font-family: arial,verdana,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 400; position: relative;">instant </span><span class="kLink" style="color: blue; font-family: arial,verdana,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 400; position: relative;">coffee</span></span> brands in sari-sari stores. Basubas converted her kitchen into a production area, and asked PhilRice and the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) to help her develop the final texture and taste of her line of coffee.<br /><a href="http://nuevaecijaphilippines.blogspot.com/2010/11/meet-ecijas-rice-coffee-queen.html?spref=fb" name="more"></a><br /><br />“As there are many local tourists who come for educational trips to the science city, they became the initial target for the marketing of my product,” Basubas says.<br /><br />The reception to her product was good. “Then I ventured into three-in-one instant coffee. It is rice coffee with sugar and milk. It was accepted by many customers,” Basubas says. As the demand increased, her production methodology improved.<br /><br />Big roasting and grinding machines, pulverizers, and a filter bag (<span style="color: blue; font-family: arial,verdana,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 400; position: static;"><span class="kLink" style="color: blue; font-family: arial,verdana,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 400; position: relative;">tea </span><span class="kLink" style="color: blue; font-family: arial,verdana,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 400; position: relative;">bags</span></span>) maker procured with a P630,000 government loan replaced the big kettle, hand grinder and other antiquated equipment she used to start the business. She soon earned the moniker “Rice Coffee Queen of <a href="http://nuevaecijaphilippines.blogspot.com/">Nueva Ecija</a>,” which opened up retail opportunities in major malls. Invited to one mall, Basubas recalls: “I was very nervous then. I even asked them to talk to me in Tagalog as I was not comfortable speaking with them in English. But deep in my heart, I was hoping that something big would come out in that interview.” Basubas was advised to improve the packaging of her products by replacing “bottles sealed in electric tape” with more attractive boxes. Soon, she was allowed to display and sell her coffee line in the SM Kultura and Hyper Market sections of the SM grocery stores nationwide.<br /><br />“It was a big leap for my business venture,” Basubas says. From a few cavans of uncooked rice in the beginning of her trade, Basubas now converts 20 to 25 sacks of rice into coffee. She has added an array of other products in her rice coffee business. She has now produced teas out of <a href="http://sabahaykubo.blogspot.com/">malunggay leaves</a>, <a href="http://sabahaykubo.blogspot.com/">ginger</a>, turmeric (yellow <span style="color: blue; font-family: arial,verdana,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 400; position: static;"><span class="kLink" style="color: blue; font-family: arial,verdana,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 400; position: relative;">ginger</span></span>), lemon grass, <a href="http://sabahaykubo.blogspot.com/">ampalaya</a> (bitter gourd), <a href="http://sabahaykubo.blogspot.com/">squash</a> and carrots.<br /><br />She also put up her own company, the Muñoz Science City (MSC) Food Products, which grosses P400,000 a month from 20 products now in the market.<br /><br />Her eldest child now manages the firm. Her husband, who is first vice president of a rural bank, helps out with the accounting. “I have 20 employees who are from our locality,” Basubas says.<br /><br />The MSC Food Products is completing the construction of a P1.8-million three-story building. “It will house our production, drying, packaging and storage areas and our company’s office,” Basubas says. “It is needed for the certification and accreditation needed for the export of our products.”<br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span class="fontbyline">By Anselmo Roque</span><br /><span class="fontbyline">Philippine Daily Inquirer, Central Luzon Desk</span><br /><span class="fonttimestamp">First Posted 17:31:00 11/20/2010</span></i></span> </div>Nueva Ecijahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15041133481636854466noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4896268236343593719.post-78635014487780043552011-02-27T02:36:00.000-08:002011-02-27T02:46:26.789-08:00In Nueva Ecija, carabaos are not just for farming<div class="wlWriterHeaderFooter" style="float:none; margin:0px; padding:4px 0px 4px 0px;"><iframe src="http://www.facebook.com/widgets/like.php?href=http://munozcity.blogspot.com/2011/02/in-nueva-ecija-carabaos-are-not-just.html" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" style="border:none; width:450px; height:80px"></iframe></div><div class="KonaBody">SCIENCE CITY OF MUÑOZ – The carabao, for centuries harnessed as draft animal, has become a symbol of hard work and simplicity – virtues that mark the Filipino farmer himself.<br><br>But the beast of burden has also helped improve the lives of its masters – the rice and corn tillers.<br><br>Through dairy carabaos, farmers are assured of earning P175 to P350 per animal a day.<br><br>As the breed of carabaos is improved, dairying has become a source of wealth for farming families.<br><br>Take the case of the 25 women from Barangay Calabalabaan in the Science City of Muñoz, Nueva Ecija. Life, they say, has become a breeze as they are able to cope with their daily needs, pay for the education of their children and improve their houses.<br><br>Belinda Parugrog, chairperson of the Angat-Buhay Producers’ Cooperative, says the group’s members now have more than 200 dairy buffaloes.<br><br>“We started with 25 heifer dairy buffaloes in 1999 that were loaned out to us by the PCC [Philippine Carabao Center],” she says.<br><br>PCC documents showed that the all-women cooperative had grossed at least P8 million from milk sales since it engaged in the enterprise.<br><br>Carabao dairying is not exclusive to Nueva Ecija, PCC records showed.<br><br>The enterprise changed the life of school dropout Francisco Solis, 47, of General Trias town in Cavite.<br>From his earnings selling fresh carabao milk and kasilyo (white cheese), Solis was able to buy vehicles, rice threshers, hand tractors, a house and lot, a rice farm and a bakery.<br><br>“There’s really big promise in raising dairy carabaos. If not for them, I would not be able to rise from poverty,” Solis said.<br><br>The Philippine Carabao Act of 1992, authored by then Senator Joseph Estrada, pushed the harnessing of carabaos for milk, meat, hide and other byproducts, aside from draft power.<br><br>A national carabao development program, launched after the passage of the law, addresses poverty alleviation, nutritional improvement, equitable income distribution, people empowerment and improvement of the lives of farming families.<br><br>Dr. Libertado Cruz of PCC says the program involves cross-breeding native carabaos with dairy water buffaloes. The center pursues artificial insemination, reproductive biotechnology and importation of dairy buffaloes.<br><br>The province has 38 dairy cooperatives that sell milk to their umbrella organization, the Nueva Ecija Federation of Dairy Carabao Cooperatives.<br><br>Records of the federation showed its members had sold 1,741,163.71 liters of milk in seven years. Value of the milk sold was estimated at P62.7 million.<br><br><span class="fontbyline">By Anselmo Roque</span><br><span class="fontbyline">Central Luzon Desk</span><br><span class="fonttimestamp">First Posted 18:51:00 02/26/2011</span> <br> <div class="KonaBody"><br></div><br></div> Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4896268236343593719.post-64516859250398527472010-11-22T20:14:00.000-08:002010-11-25T20:19:51.305-08:00Farmers find carabao raising more profitable than rice farming<div class="wlWriterHeaderFooter" style="float: none; margin: 0px; padding: 4px 0px;"><iframe frameborder="0" scrolling="no" src="http://www.facebook.com/widgets/like.php?href=http://munozcity.blogspot.com/2010/11/farmers-find-carabao-raising-more.html" style="border: medium none; height: 80px; width: 450px;"></iframe></div>MUNOZ, Nueva Ecija – Milk is not forever.<br />
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On average, a female carabao lactates for 10 months, followed by two months when she is dry.<br />
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And for Leoncio Callo, 49, the drought came at a crucial time. "Five of my cows simultaneously stopped producing milk, so my son was forced to quit college this semester for the time being, for lack of money," he says. "He’s helping with farm work now."<br />
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"We had money for tuition but not for his daily transportation and allowance," he adds. "I’ve been milking cows continuously for five years each and every day, and this is the first time that they went dry all at the same time."<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://sabahaykubo.blogspot.com/2010/10/ang-kalabaw-baw.html" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVL5YFygbrXOjET1u0kG7lndDsuABibfUDl9HD2CcWlwd3Y7sxgdJ73SNPe3dDjAShC1mxZtx9QAvgAjjyckZDoD9_bZj0qpzWcJfmVdi3-SMDAExAJ0jLKiA33qYbWPgOYw3htSfKBUc/s1600/carabao+2.jpg" /></a></div>There were hard times before when tuition money was needed and he was forced to sell even a female calf, which is highly valued for its potential milk. A five-month-old female is easy to sell, he says, even at P15,000, compared with a male of the same age which goes for P10,000.<br />
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This time, the only calf in the farm is too young to sell.<br />
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He started dairy farming in 1999 with one <a href="http://sabahaykubo.blogspot.com/2010/10/ang-kalabaw-baw.html">carabao</a> from the Philippine Carabao Center (PCC). Today, he has 12 <a href="http://sabahaykubo.blogspot.com/2010/10/ang-kalabaw-baw.html">carabaos</a> and one cow and in between he has sold 10 calves in the 10 years since.<br />
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Each of his <a href="http://sabahaykubo.blogspot.com/2010/10/ang-kalabaw-baw.html">carabao</a> produces about 8 liters of milk a day, all of which are sold to the <a href="http://nuevaecijaphilippines.blogspot.com/">Nueva Ecija</a> Federation of Dairy Cooperatives (Nefedco).<br />
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A former rice farmer, Callo devotes nearly one hectare of his land in Barangay Gabaldon to raising <a href="http://sabahaykubo.blogspot.com/2010/10/ang-kalabaw-baw.html">carabaos</a> and forage; about half a hectare is planted to rice solely for family consumption.<br />
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"<a href="http://sabahaykubo.blogspot.com/2010/10/ang-kalabaw-baw.html">Carabao</a> raising is better than rice farming, it gives me a higher income," says Callo who is the only <a href="http://sabahaykubo.blogspot.com/2010/10/ang-kalabaw-baw.html">carabao</a> raiser in a neighborhood of five households. "As they say, each to his own business."<br />
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Other people, he says, finds it a tedious job as they see him carrying forage day in and day out, back and forth from the field to the <a href="http://sabahaykubo.blogspot.com/2010/10/ang-kalabaw-baw.html">carabao</a> shed. "It is the hardest part of the job," he says, "but it’s OK."<br />
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"It is not that difficult. It is hard only when there is no forage, otherwise for me it is easy. But for some, it might not be," he says. "Rice farming is over for me, dairy is now our business."<br />
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Work starts at 4 am when the <a href="http://sabahaykubo.blogspot.com/2010/10/ang-kalabaw-baw.html">carabaos</a> are brought to a 3-by-4-meter "swimming pool" where they are washed before milking.<br />
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<a href="http://sabahaykubo.blogspot.com/2010/10/ang-kalabaw-baw.html" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaoXQUSj_n0JRw9mviXVmcCrhxqtYTqRFIgH0bGiKtvnhJB53SR4QBKSWll1_LR-CocXHeB5Fpixg2aMPzFGG-KrOuNZYlaACBuCUim0hnmkvm1MhdeXym31dtqFd8iZ_xshtWKkE5uw8/s1600/carabaos.jpg" /></a>Callo believes he is the only one in the province with the swimming pool; that is because his farm is about a kilometer from a water source. Other carabao raisers use piped water to wash livestock, or else bring the <a href="http://sabahaykubo.blogspot.com/2010/10/ang-kalabaw-baw.html">carabaos</a> to the river.<br />
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Washing is required before milking, which Callo does manually in 1.5 hours for five <a href="http://sabahaykubo.blogspot.com/2010/10/ang-kalabaw-baw.html">carabaos</a>; he plans to buy a P58,000 milking machine this year. The milk, stored in plastic containers, is picked up by a delivery man and brought to Nefedco.<br />
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The service costs P2 per liter. At an average 30 liters of milk a day, that means P60 going to the delivery man. But Callo is grateful for the extra service.<br />
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One service he will avail soon is artificial insemination which costs P500. He deposits P100 and pays the balance when the <a href="http://sabahaykubo.blogspot.com/2010/10/ang-kalabaw-baw.html">carabao</a> gives birth. Otherwise, the process is repeated again and again until insemination is successful; that’s the only time when the balance is paid.<br />
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He also plans to acquire a bull from the PCC on "credit"; after 25 calves are produced, he will own the bull. This will take at least three years.<br />
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<a href="http://nuevaecijaphilippines.blogspot.com/">Nueva Ecija</a> is a National Impact Zone for buffalo dairy production, a development model established by PCC in 1999 that includes massive crossbreeding supported by the training of village-based artificial insemination technicians, and provision of genetically superior semen, bull loans, milk production and processing and a province-wide milk collection system.<br />
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The 25-Cow Dairy Buffalo Module, for example, is an animal loan scheme developed by PCC in which purebred dairy buffaloes are lent out to members of Nefedco. It is repaid in kind over a five-year period.<br />
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Nefedco collects and produces an average of 1,400 liters of milk daily. The federation processes the raw milk into pastry products that are sold in Central Luzon, Baguio and Metro Manila.<br />
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Carabao milk is the One-Town, One-Product (OTOP) commodity of <a href="http://nuevaecijaphilippines.blogspot.com/">Nueva Ecija</a>’s <a href="http://munozcity.blogspot.com/">Muñoz</a>, <a href="http://guimbanuevaecijaphilippines.blogspot.com/">Guimba</a>, <a href="http://llaneranuevaecija.blogspot.com/">Llanera</a>, <a href="http://talaveranuevaecija.blogspot.com/">Talavera</a> and <a href="http://sanjosecityne.blogspot.com/">San Jose City</a>.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Source: <a href="http://www.malaya.com.ph/11182010/agri1.html">Business Insight</a></i></span> , <i><span style="font-size: x-small;">by Paul Icamina </span></i>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4896268236343593719.post-80814960434976573272010-11-22T13:31:00.000-08:002010-11-27T16:03:39.634-08:00Schools<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Schools"></span></h2><ul><li>Elementary and Pre-elementary School</li>
</ul><dl><dd><ul><li>37 Public Elementary Schools and 37 Daycare Centers</li>
<li>Accelerated Christian International Schools</li>
<li>Guiding Star Learning Center</li>
<li>Adonai Integrated Montessori School</li>
<li>United Methodist Learning Center</li>
<li>ACLEAD</li>
<li>JDS Montessori</li>
<li>Kelston Montessori</li>
<li>Hellen Keller Montessori</li>
<li>Little Lamb Montessori</li>
</ul></dd></dl><ul><li>Secondary</li>
</ul><dl><dd><ul><li>Muñoz National High School</li>
<li>Muñoz National High School Annex</li>
<li>CLSU Science High School</li>
<li>Agricultural Science and Technology High School</li>
<li>Palusapis Outreach School</li>
<li>San Sebastian School</li>
<li>Science City Montessori</li>
<li>Adonai Integrated Montessori School</li>
</ul></dd></dl><ul><li>Tertiary</li>
</ul><dl><dd><ul><li>Central Luzon State University</li>
<li>CLSU Computer Training Center</li>
</ul></dd></dl>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4896268236343593719.post-78884206521509609982010-11-22T13:29:00.000-08:002010-11-22T13:30:12.025-08:00Barangays<h2><a href="http://munozcity.blogspot.com/">Muñoz</a> is politically subdivided into 37 <a href="http://sabahaykubo.blogspot.com/">barangays</a>.</h2><table border="0"><tbody>
<tr> <td valign="top"><ul><li>Bagong Sikat</li>
<li>Balante</li>
<li>Bantug</li>
<li>Bical</li>
<li>Cabisuculan</li>
<li>Calabalabaan</li>
<li>Calisitan</li>
<li>Catalanacan</li>
<li>Curva</li>
<li>Franza</li>
<li>Gabaldon</li>
<li>Labney</li>
<li>Licaong</li>
</ul></td> <td valign="top"><ul><li>Linglingay</li>
<li>Mangandingay</li>
<li>Magtanggol</li>
<li>Maligaya</li>
<li>Mapangpang</li>
<li>Maragol</li>
<li>Matingkis</li>
<li>Naglabrahan</li>
<li>Palusapis</li>
<li>Pandalla</li>
<li>Poblacion East</li>
<li>Poblacion North</li>
</ul></td> <td valign="top"><ul><li>Poblacion South</li>
<li>Poblacion West</li>
<li>Rang-ayan</li>
<li>Rizal</li>
<li>San Andres</li>
<li>San Antonio</li>
<li>San Felipe</li>
<li>Sapang Cawayan</li>
<li>Villa Isla</li>
<li>Villa Nati</li>
<li>Villa Santos</li>
<li>Villa Cuizon</li>
</ul></td></tr>
</tbody></table>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4896268236343593719.post-70630399918272634162010-11-22T13:13:00.000-08:002010-11-22T13:49:00.160-08:00History From Barrio to Town<h3><span class="mw-headline" id="From_Barrio_to_Town"></span></h3>Upon recommendation of the Provincial Board of <a href="http://nuevaecijaphilippines.blogspot.com/">Nueva Ecija</a>, then headed by Governor Isauro <a href="http://gabaldonnuevaecija.blogspot.com/">Gabaldon</a>, and with approval of then Acting Governor General Newton Gilbert, the organized barrios and <i><a href="http://sabahaykubo.blogspot.com/">sitios</a> </i>were granted independence as a regular municipality on January 10, 1913 under the name of <a href="http://munozcity.blogspot.com/">Muñoz</a>. The seat of the fledgling municipal government was positioned in erstwhile Barrio Muñoz. Thus, the municipality of <a href="http://munozcity.blogspot.com/">Muñoz</a> was born, and steadily grew to become today an Agricultural Science City in-the-making.<br />
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<a href="http://munozcity.blogspot.com/">Muñoz</a> owes a tremendous lot to its early leaders — Tranquilino Delos Santos, and other homesteaders Luis Ramos, Ambrosio Medina, Cayetano Caisip, Victorino Pornuevo, and Precy Hill Delos Santos. A municipal hall, a church building, and a small public market were erected in <i> Lumang Bayan</i> (now Poblacion North). A road linking the young <a href="http://munozcity.blogspot.com/">Muñoz</a> town with the national highway from Barangay <i>Bacal</i>, Talavera was also constructed.<br />
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<a href="http://munozcity.blogspot.com/">Muñoz</a> continued to attract more settlers. More <a href="http://sabahaykubo.blogspot.com/">barrios</a> were established and were named after their peoples’ ideals and aspirations, landmarks, and personalities such as <i>Rang-ayan</i> (prosperity), <i>Linglingay</i> (recreation), <i>Mangandingay</i> (company), <i>Magtanggol</i> (defense), and <i>Villa Isla </i>(in a leader’s honor).<br />
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<a href="http://munozcity.blogspot.com/">Muñoz</a> was not spared from the pains of the Second World War. Being the last stronghold of the Japanese Imperial Army while scampering to the Cordilleras, the Allied liberation in <a href="http://munozcity.blogspot.com/">Muñoz</a> by the country by joint United States and Philippine Commonwealth forces offensive razed the town to the ground in a matter of days.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4896268236343593719.post-82001940743364605552010-11-22T13:08:00.000-08:002010-11-22T13:37:54.577-08:00History From Sitio to Barrio<div class="wlWriterHeaderFooter" style="float:none; margin:0px; padding:4px 0px 4px 0px;"><iframe src="http://www.facebook.com/widgets/like.php?href=http://munozcity.blogspot.com/2010/11/history-from-sitio-to-barrio.html" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" style="border:none; width:450px; height:80px"></iframe></div>In 1886, <i><a href="http://sabahaykubo.blogspot.com">Papaya</a></i> was changed into '<a href="http://munozcity.blogspot.com/">Muñoz'</a> to honor Don Francisco Muñoz, the province’s <i>alcalde mayor</i>, and the community’s first appointed <i>gobernadorcillo</i>. <a href="http://munozcity.blogspot.com/">Muñoz</a> was annexed as a <a href="http://sabahaykubo.blogspot.com">barrio</a> of San Juan de <a href="http://guimbanuevaecijaphilippines.blogspot.com/">Guimba</a> municipality. Settlers trickled in from Bulacan and the Ilocos Region. In 1911, Factoria (now <a href="http://sanisidronuevaecija.blogspot.com/">San Isidro</a> town), the provincial capital, was totally flooded. <a href="http://munozcity.blogspot.com/">Muñoz</a> was then considered a possible new capital of the province. At about the same time, the people of Barrios <a href="http://munozcity.blogspot.com/">Muñoz</a> and <a href="http://sanantonionuevacijaphilippines.blogspot.com/">San Antonio</a>, also in San Juan de <a href="http://guimbanuevaecijaphilippines.blogspot.com/">Guimba</a> town, and <i>Palusapis</i> in <a href="http://santodomingonuevaecija.blogspot.com/">Sto. Domingo</a> municipality, together with <i>Sitios Kabisukulan, Rang-ayan, Mataas na Lupa, Siniguelas, Purok Agrikultura, </i>and<i> Pulong Maragul </i>in <a href="http://talaveranuevaecija.blogspot.com/">Talavera </a>town, were organizing themselves to be separated from their three respective municipalities to become a new independent municipality. They were prepared to construct a municipal hall and a school building for the emerging town. Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4896268236343593719.post-80487682918077504742010-11-22T04:57:00.003-08:002010-11-22T12:39:25.815-08:00Muñoz, Nueva Ecija<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTcz_hTLY9DaMxfB0WABphm0IGt1bSB7YAL9TxEGh3SN59wmGViB5MXlTwc82D3C5VhyHX8fUYVGog2Cko5C9qXqe49Dfo7u0pY-pgXrysaM5azpJgy1_cpjRMorbwUF5aN5BaDUlaovc/s1600/Ph_locator_nueva_ecija_munoz.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTcz_hTLY9DaMxfB0WABphm0IGt1bSB7YAL9TxEGh3SN59wmGViB5MXlTwc82D3C5VhyHX8fUYVGog2Cko5C9qXqe49Dfo7u0pY-pgXrysaM5azpJgy1_cpjRMorbwUF5aN5BaDUlaovc/s1600/Ph_locator_nueva_ecija_munoz.png" /></a></div>The <a href="http://munozcity.blogspot.com/"><b>Science City of Muñoz</b></a>, situated 147 km North of Manila, is the acknowledged center of agricultural research and technology in Central Luzon. With its rich topography and tropical climate, it is now home to the premiere agricultural centers committed to the production of information and technological breakthroughs to promote rural development, productivity and food security.<br />
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From its lowly origins as “Sitio Papaya”, it was rechristened as <a href="http://munozcity.blogspot.com/">Muñoz</a> in 1886 in honor of Spanish Governor Don Francisco Muñoz. It was in 1913, under Executive Order No. 72, wherein <a href="http://munozcity.blogspot.com/">Muñoz</a> was declared as a new and independent municipality.<br />
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With a bustling market center wherein rice trading was a major economic activity, it has metamorphosed into its present stature, unprecedented in the annals of the country as a <a href="http://munozcity.blogspot.com/">Science City</a> by virtue of Republic Act 8977 on December 9, 2000.<br />
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The overriding objective of transforming<a href="http://munozcity.blogspot.com/"> Muñoz</a> into a center of science and technology, trade, commerce and agro-industry is now achievable as the city is now financially sound to implement and translate into reality its conceptualized framework of total development.<br />
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Being a science city, <a href="http://munozcity.blogspot.com/">Muñoz</a> was acknowledged as one of the members of League of Cities of the Philippines and became a pilot city of achieving the United Nation’s Millennium Development Goals.<br />
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Today, <a href="http://munozcity.blogspot.com/">Muñoz</a> is fully confident in its march to history, treading the path to glory and immortality as the First-ever Science City in the Philippines and most probably also the First chartered City in the World.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0