TACLOBAN CITY – To know if indeed airline companies do not allow transporting of local wine “tuba,” An Waray party-list Representative Florencio “Bem” Noel said that he will try to do it by himself to personally know if indeed bringing “tuba” is indeed prohibited.
“I would like to experience it, and not just rely on what people had told me, ako an magsi-ship,” Noel said.
Noel added that he had already prepared several bottles of tuba which he will give as Christmas present to his fellow congressmen.
“The tuba are with good packaging and wrapped on “bayong” and I will use the plane to transport it,” Noel added.
Transporting tuba via airplane is one of the problems that local producers are complaining as airline companies prohibit them to placed it in their cargo.
Airline companies are not the only one prohibiting the bringing of tuba but there are also reports that hotels also prohibits them to bring said products.
The regional office of the tourism department had also share the same story of tuba producers based on comments they get from personnel of hotels and airline companies.
Tuba is not just popular in this region but also in other parts of Visayas and Mindanao.
As a help to promote this product in the national market, the An Waray party-list group yearly hosts a festival showcasing the variety of uses of tuba, from wine to ingredients in cooking through the Oktubafest during October.
The yearly event does not only aim to promote tuba but also to support the coconut industry, where the region is one of the top coconut producing regions in the country.
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