Pangasinan festival to showcase agri products

STA. BARBARA, Pangasinan: Bounties of the land and of water will be showcased in a five-day product exposition of farmers and fisherfolk here from March 28 to April 1, an event described by organizers as “a curtain-raiser for the colorful and meaningful Pistay Dayat, dubbed as Pangasinan’s ‘mother of all festivals’.”

Agriculture Secretary Emmanuel Piñol has been invited to open the festivities to be held at the sprawling 5-hectare nursery of the provincial government in Barangay Tebag of this town, the province’s rice granary. Gov. Amado I. Espino III will join him, along with regional and provincial agriculture officials.