Chatto: Boholanas need little more than FAITH

BY: REY ANTHONY H. CHIU

TAGBILARAN CITY, March 8 (PIA)— Governor Edgar Chatto asked Bohol women to have a little more than FAITH, during his keynote address at the opening launch of the International Women’s Month at Plaza Rizal, March today.

Set in time for the International Women’s Day, the launching activity was among the many which Bohol organized for the day: a medical dental mission by Bohol Association of Women in Government Service (BAWIGS), a district caravan, a women’s product fair, on the spot photography and writing contests and still other smaller women-centered activities all over the island. 

Fresh from Manila and homing to beat the women’s month launching activity, Chatto, who has been
a staunch advocate for productivity in the Boholano home-picked the theme for his address to women. 

Noting the agricultural, ornamental, processed food and other novelty souvenir products on display at the agricultural, ornamental and processed food fair, the governor went on to touch Bohol’s agricultural food production in support of the tourism as stated in its vision.

Chatto said, Bohol then envisions to become a prime eco-cultural tourism destination in the Visayas with a strong agro-industry to support the tourism food supply requirements. 

Chatto lauded the organizers upon seeing backyard produce among the items on showcase, which generated interest from the morning crowd awaiting the activities at the plaza. 

Underscoring the need for productivity which contributes to the development of Bohol, Chatto said his productivity campaign slogan; Food Always In The Home (FAITH) is not enough for Bohol. 

“We need to go for a more commercial production,” he said. 

Citing agriculture poised as a strong support to tourism, the governor said “tourists come here to spend and this money circulates all over the province.”

He said half of Bohol’s food requirements for locals and tourists come from Cagayan and Cebu. 

If we produce the food, that means we do not have to get the money outside Bohol to pay for these food products, he added.

If food production happens here, everyone becomes a participant in supplying the food and the novelty items as souvenirs for tourists become Bohol's economic income. (mbcn/rahc/PIA7-Bohol)