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| Showing Lobo's apple sugar nursery. Lobo Mayor Efren Diona shows the apple sugar nursery to Achbishop Ramon Arguelles, Provincial Administrator Vic Reyes, Governor Vilma Santos-Recto, and staff. For years, the sugar apple industry of Lobo suffered heavily because of the melee bugs. The industry is getting a push for revival now. (Photo from Capitol PIO) |
Lobo,
Batangas---The sugar apple capital of the province got a boost from Batangas
governor Vilma Santos-Recto in her recent visit to the town with the distribution of about 200
seedlings of the fruit tree that thrives on the town’s steep limestone
mountains and soil type.
Sugar apple, locally known in the Philippines as Atis, used to be abundant in Lobo, hence the former tag of the town as the sugar apple capital of the Philippines.
Sugar apple, locally known in the Philippines as Atis, used to be abundant in Lobo, hence the former tag of the town as the sugar apple capital of the Philippines.
Lobo
is known here as a character town that is isolated by the Mt. Banoy and Lipa's mountain ranges and the sea from the industrial and commercial city of Batangas, which is only 43 kilometers away. Despite the isolation, the town has been abreast with the technologies of first class municipality while balancing it with nature and agriculture.
Recent reports from Philippine Information Agency says that Lobo is set
to be developed by the tourism department as the province’s next tourist
destination.
Aside from sugar apple, Lobo also produces the biggest supply of bananas, coconut oil, and export quality sweet tamarind in the province.
Aside from sugar apple, Lobo also produces the biggest supply of bananas, coconut oil, and export quality sweet tamarind in the province.
According
to Gov. Vi, she’s also pushing for environment protection of the town, which is
considered a natural paradise, and is only 43 kilometers east of Batangas City,
where the capitol is located.
The
governor was accompanied by provincial administrator Engr. Vic Reyes, Lobo
mayor Efren Diona and Lipa Archbishop Ramon Arguelles who also toured the town’s
sugar apple nursery.
Lobo
used to be the Philippines sugar apple capital until 2003, when melee bugs
destroyed the trees and industry suffered a slow death.
The revival of the sugar apple industry is now one of the provincial government’s priorities, the governor said. (Mei Magsino, SLI)
The revival of the sugar apple industry is now one of the provincial government’s priorities, the governor said. (Mei Magsino, SLI)
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