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The National Food Authority was created by President Ferdinand Marcos through Presidential Decree No. 4 dated September 26, 1972, under the name National Grains Authority (NGA) with the mission of promoting the integrated growth and development of the grains industry covering rice, corn, feed grains and other grains like sorghum, mung beans, and peanuts. [1]
Pangasinan is mostly spoken in the central part of the province in the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th districts, is also spoken by many residents as 1st language in eastern part of the province in the 5th and 6th districts, and is the second language in other parts of Pangasinan.
The province of Pangasinan is divided into 44 municipalities, 3 component cities, and 1 independent component city, [1] all of which are organized into six legislative districts. [2] There are a total of 1,364 barangays in the province.
As of June 11, 2024, there are 82 provinces ( province ), 33 highly urbanized cities ( HUC ), 5 independent component cities ( ICC ), and one independent municipality ( NCR municipality ). [ 1 ] [ needs update ] All 120 primary-level LGUs (local government units) are under general administrative supervision of the President of the Philippines .
This is a list of terms which are used, or have been used in the past, to designate the residents of specific provinces of the Philippines.These terms sometimes overlap with demonyms of ethnic groups in the Philippines, which are also used as identifiers in common parlance.
ISO 3166-2:PH is the entry for the Philippines in ISO 3166-2, part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), which defines codes for the names of the principal subdivisions (e.g., provinces or states) of all countries coded in ISO 3166-1.
In 1611, the province of Pangasinan was made, annexing both the settlements around the Lingayen Gulf excluding Bolinao, as well as the interior settlements, which included Binalatongan, ending its independence as a politically separate territory from Pangasinan.
Lingayen, officially the Municipality of Lingayen ([ˌliŋgɐˈjɛn]; Pangasinan: Baley na Lingayen; Ilocano: Ili ti Lingayen; Tagalog: Bayan ng Lingayen), is a municipality and capital of the province of Pangasinan, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 107,728 people. [4]