Tacloban City, July 28 -- The Northern Samar provincial government has lined up interventions to revitalize the province's local abaca industry, a key abaca producer in Eastern Visayas.

The local government will soon operate a tissue culture laboratory at the Provincial Agriculture and Fishery Extension Center in Catarman town, and establish an abaca nursery at the Libas Estate Multiplier Farm in Pambujan town.

"These interventions aim to ensure the availability of quality, disease-free planting materials and sustainable replanting efforts," the Provincial Agriculture Office said in a statement on Monday.

The province is a recipient of PHP11.4-million fund to support the abaca plantation under the Coconut and Other Shade Trees Project ...