THE public can now visit Pavia, Iloilo’s first-ever eco-park located at the town’s Barangay Balabag following its opening on Friday, Oct. 23.
Barangay Balabag Eco Park occupies over 1,000-square meter lot owned by couple Brgy. Balabag kagawad Teresita and Romeo Jallorina. The eco-park boasts of various kinds of plants such as ornamental and flowering types, that plantitos and plantitas will surely love.
Pavia Mayor Luigi Gorriceta (2nd from right) leads the ribbon-cutting ceremony during the opening of Barangay Balabag Eco Park together with (from left) Pavia’s OSCA head Judy Hollero, Vice Mayor Edsel Gerochi and Sangguniang Bayan member Dan Fajardo. 
Municipal Environment and Natural Resources Office head Susan Jovero 
Barangay Balabag kagawad Teresita Jallorina shows the vermicompost, a product of their vermiculture. The compost is for sale.
There are also some fruit-bearing trees and a vegetable garden.
Jallorina said the plants were grown through a vermicast with the aid of African night crawlers they have acquired from the Department of Agriculture in Western Visayas.
Balabag Eco Park. The mayor added that the municipal government will donate the town’s old playground equipment to the eco-park.
Vice Mayor Edsel Gerochi says he will donate
flower pots to the eco-park.
Hon. Dan Fajardo, Sangguniang Bayan’s
Committee on Agriculture chairman, expresses
his support to the Brgy. Balabag Eco Park
Brgy. Balabag SK Chairman Jeff Moises Hontoria said the eco-park was put up in honor of the late barangay kagawad Marina Subesa. According to Hontoria, Subesa was the one who encouraged the barangay council to pursue the project./PN
