by Angelda T. Baylon
Use indigenous materials: this is the campaign of Mr. Emelio T. Terencio, chairman of the Board of Directors of the Tumbokon Clan Foundation, Inc. (TCFI). Terencio appreciates the users of buri bags, rattan/bamboo/coco midribs baskets. He prefers foods wrapped in banana leaves, cooked in bamboo internode (binakoe) when going out to picnics at the beaches or other public places.
Included in his multi-cropped farms are some buri palm, ambueong, nipa, rattan, bamboo and anahaw to have abundant raw materials necessary for a sound/healthy environment. He discourages the use of non-biodegradable materials which damage, shallow creeks/streams, killing flora and fauna from upstreams down through the flood plains of rice farms, fishponds, mangroves to coastal areas by the sea.
Terencio reminded the young generation of the works of the late Jose Terencio Baylon of Brgy. Dumga, Makato who donated wooden office tables, chairs, benches (gov’t. and private offices since 1950’s until he died in 1990. Some of his works of arts in carpentry done manually still exist at the family library of the late Prof. A. Tumbokon. Like Terencio, Tumbokon also advocated the daily use of indigenous materials like ‘baylokan, hungot, dipper, laddle, sag-ob, kawit, saeod’, toys, hanger, flower base made of wood, bamboo, coconut husks/shells/midribs which he exported to Manila in the 1970’s.
With the theme “Love Indigenous Materials”, it will promote good moral values and positive attitude to keep clean members and aware of their role in taking care of the environment; to save the dwindling biodiversity and prevent destruction of natural ecosystem.
Terencio expects much from TCFI president Joeben T. Miraflores who is also our congressman to do his best to regain our “Lost Paradise” due to unabated use of gasoline base farm inputs”. He must encourage the use of organic fertilizer out of biodegradable materials so we can return to the “promised land overflowing with milk and honey”. /MP
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