Sorsogon -- The provincial government of Sorsogon along with the Provincial Agricultural and Fishery Council (PAFC) Industrial Crops Committee, in its desire to bring additional information and gains to pili farmers in the province, will be conducting two hands-on training on Monday, Sept. 1, 2008, in this city. The first training to be conducted in the morning will focus on Tapping of Pili Sap or Manila Elemi. Mr. Arsenio Ella of Forest Products Research and Development Institute will tutor the participants on the right procedures to obtain pili resin from its trunk without obliterating the entire pili tree. PAFC Chairman Godofredo Ditan said that through this technology, pili farmers will certainly gain higher profit and will continue to gain more as long as the pili tree lives. The second training to be conducted in the afternoon of the same day will focus on Pili Pulp Oil Extraction. Mrs. Minda Yee, proprietor of Leslie's Pili Products here, will delve on the proper procedures necessary to produce oil from pili pulp. Yee said that aside from its pleasant odor, the oil produced from pili is very ideal to use in cooking and in other food products.It also contains medicinal properties, Yee added. After the lecture-demonstrations, participants interested in pili tapping are expected to do a practicum thus requiring them to bring a small bolo, while for groups interested in pili pulp oil extraction, they are required to bring cheesecloth, small bottle and small pan. Ditan, meanwhile instructs interested participants to register at the PAFC Office found at the Provincial Agriculture Office, Capitol Compound, Sorsogon City. The pili or Canarium Ovatum, which is indigeneous in Bicol region grows abundantly in Sorsogon and is one of the province's premier products.
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