The Department of Labor and Employment is developing a skills registry system that will capture grassroots skills and employers' data that will make it easier for the government to assess the demand situation for skills in the labor market and enable it to make relevant policy for employment facilitation and generation, a press release from DOLE said.

The envisioned skills registry has been piloted in select regions, and the first wave of implementation will kick off next month.

Once set into place, the National Skills Registry System, or SRS, will combine the existing skills registries of the Phil-Job Net and the Public Employment Service Office, the press release said.

Crop bio-agents
developed for organic produce

The Brgy. Daan Banwa, Kabankalan City, Negros Occidental, organic village is operating a bio control laboratory to produce agents for organic agriculture, Melba Bañares, Agriculturist II Office of the Provincial Agriculturist, said.

Bañares said the village primarily produces trichograma, trichoderma, and natural farming system concoctions.

The trichograma is a type of insect that parasitize the eggs of the stem borers and other agricultural pests.

DOT to join travel expo in Vietnam

The Department of Tourism is inviting hotels, resorts, tour operators, transport services and other stakeholders in the Philippine travel industry to participate in the International Travel Expo on October 1 to 3, at the Phu To Exhibition Center, Ho Chi Minh City , a DOT press release said.

The ITE Vietnam that is on its 5th year, is considered as one of the foremost tourism travel fairs in Asia, with more than 150 international buyer and corporate travel managers.

Under the theme, “Gap Go in Another World,” or “to meet in another world,” the fair will introduce the 3CODe concept, or “Three Countries, One Destination,” referring to countries of Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam that are packaged as one exciting destination, in a multi-agenda campaign to promote the three countries, highlighting the World Heritage Sites present there, the press release said.

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