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Balikucha from Ilocos Sur. Balikucha, also spelled balicucha or balikutsa, is a type of traditional pulled sugar candy from the Philippines. It is made by boiling pure sugarcane juice or crystalline sugar (usually muscovado or palm sugar) until it caramelizes and becomes a syrup. It is then pulled and folded repeatedly against a nail until it ...
unás or sugarcane stalks. Basí is a traditional fermented alcoholic beverage with 10-16% alcoholic by volume produced by the Ilocano people in Northern Luzon, Philippines. . It is made from unás (), specifically bennál (sugarcane juice), combined with natural additives and a fermentation starter called gamú, a plant ingredients that make for fermenting as well as coloring agents in basi ...
Ilocos Sur is bordered by Ilocos Norte and Abra to the north, Mountain Province to the east, La Union and Benguet to the south and the West Philippine Sea to the west. Ilocos Sur was founded by the Spanish conquistador Juan de Salcedo in 1572. It was formed when the north (now Ilocos Norte) split from the south (Ilocos Sur). At that time, it ...
Emmylou Jomero's Wynn’s Food Products are sourced from Salcedo, Ilocos Sur towering cacao trees and started in 2015. She was Top 5 in the Best 70% Dark Chocolate Contest of Kakao Konek in Davao City in 2019 and an awardee in the Kannawidan Ylocos Festival in Ilocos Sur. [28]
Ilocos Norte accounted for the majority of this production at 97.20%, followed by Ilocos Sur with 2.80%. [81] While in tobacco, recording 24.62 thousand metric tons in the second quarter of 2023, which accounted for 66.4% of the country’s total output. Ilocos Sur was the top producer, followed by Pangasinan, La Union, and Ilocos Norte.
Poverty incidence of Santa Maria 5 10 15 20 2006 17.20 2009 16.91 2012 18.54 2015 11.33 2018 4.73 2021 15.91 Source: Philippine Statistics Authority Main highway through Santa Maria Located in a fertile region with a cool tropical climate, the principal crops of Santa Maria are corn, cotton, indigo, rice, sugarcane and tobacco. Santa Maria's economy remained docile for almost four decades ...
Banig products has since gained importance prompting local officials and Libertadnons to establish the Banigan Festival to promote banig and sub-products of banig as their One-town-One Product (OTOP). The festival also aims to encourage the banig weavers that the banig they produced could possibly turn into a highly valuable item that can be ...
Signage in Los Baños showing its nickname. This partial list of city and municipality nicknames in the Philippines compiles the aliases, sobriquets, and slogans that cities and municipalities in the Philippines are known by (or have been known historically by), officially and unofficially, to municipal governments, local people, outsiders, or their tourism boards or chambers of commerce.