Aired (March 16, 2025): Bukod sa ekta-ektaryang asinan na ang ipinagmamalaki ng Dasol, Pangasinan, itinuturing din itong ‘Home of the Quality Salt’ dahil sa pagiging pollution-free nito. Panoorin ang video.
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00:00The people of Dasol in Pangasinan are known for their wealth.
00:04But instead of color, it's black.
00:06It's white and it's grown on the ground.
00:09They earn from this.
00:13Up to a million.
00:14What kind of wealth is that?
00:16200 per kaban.
00:17That's why they earn up to 80 million pesos a season.
00:21They produce three kinds of salt.
00:24Barara, the salt that's grown on the ground.
00:27Dirty salt.
00:29Dirty salt is what's grown on the ground.
00:32And the salt that's taken from the fields and cooked to make pino.
00:37The salt that we normally use every day.
00:40When I wake up.
00:41When I wake up, I actually eat.
00:43I don't eat.
00:44I drink electrolytes.
00:45That's salt.
00:46I cook eggs.
00:48That's still salt.
00:51I work out.
00:52Salt comes out of my body.
00:54Sometimes, or most of the time, we take salt for granted.
00:59That's why when we saw the process of making salt here in Pangasinan.
01:05Saludo.
01:06When I look at the salt now, I don't look at the pepper.
01:09I only look at the salt.
01:11Then I'll say, salt, you're crazy.
01:16The salt in Dasol is not just hectares.
01:19It's also considered as home of the quality salt.
01:22Because their salt is pollution-free.
01:24Here in Dasol, we're not the biggest producer of salt.
01:28But we have the highest chloride content.
01:31And we're also the content that the Danubasas consider.
01:34And the quality of this is also far-reaching.
01:37The salt of Dasol is not just here in Pangasinan that the salt reaches.
01:41It reaches the whole Philippines.
01:43From Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao.
01:45And not only that.
01:46The salt of Dasol is also being imported to Japan now.
01:51To strengthen, all of that is because of the salt.
01:54Salt.
01:56Our lunch is not yet here.
01:59Lunch.
02:00That's good.
02:01Hey, Tay.
02:02You know, I'm so hungry.
02:03I've been starving for a while.
02:04The calabao is really tiring to cook.
02:06Yes.
02:07Really?
02:08Yes.
02:09It's been a week already.
02:10It's boiling.
02:11It's okay.
02:12As long as it has meat in it.
02:13Thank you, Tay.
02:14I'm really grateful.
02:16This is what I mean.
02:17Cream of lobster.
02:21With garlic.
02:24And some onion mix.
02:28That's what you put in.
02:30And there's mushroom.
02:31There's mushroom.
02:42Tay.
02:43It doesn't taste good.
02:45It's okay.
02:46That's why it doesn't taste good.
02:47I'm fooling myself.
02:48It really doesn't taste good.
02:49It doesn't taste good.
02:50Wait.
02:51Wait a minute.
02:52I'll get something first.
02:54Where are you going?
03:07Where did you go?
03:10This is the only salt.
03:12I'll get sugar.
03:14But before the salt reaches our kitchens,
03:16and while eating,
03:17sweat and fatigue is what we go through.
03:19And their livelihood still depends on the sun.
03:22Literally,
03:23we remember when it rains.
03:25The sun is our companion in harvesting salt.
03:28Because if there's no sun,
03:30we won't be able to harvest.
03:32Half of the 18 barangays of Dasol have salt.
03:36This is the main livelihood of their town.
03:38And in this livelihood,
03:40each member of the family has their own job.
03:43It's a family job.
03:44It's not just one person.
03:46From the father,
03:47the mother,
03:48to the children.
03:49Even when they're still young,
03:50if they're able to do the laundry,
03:52they put the salt in the food.
03:54They help each other to make the work easier.
03:56We all help each other.
03:58Some help with the food,
03:59some help with the water,
04:00some help with the chisels.
04:02That's what we do every day.
04:04That's the tradition that we do here.
04:06So that the children can also benefit from the work.
04:10So that the salt won't be lost.
04:12As the family of Mrs. Marcela,
04:14of the more than 400 families in Dasol
04:16that live off of salt,
04:17she's also the oldest salt worker in Dasol.
04:20I'm 12 years old.
04:22I've been doing this for 50 years.
04:24The reason why she still continues
04:26to work despite her age,
04:28is so that they don't have to
04:29add more salt to make food.
04:32My son and I,
04:33we also have a job
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