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Trade
and Industry
Farming, fishing, handicrafts, and retail merchandising are the major
livelihood sources,
while livestock, swine and poultry raising provide additional income.
Traditional fishing methods are now supplemented by fish farming in
fishponds, fish pens and fish cages. Fishponds now occupy 1,537 has.
For bangus production; 31 has. of prawn farms, and 28 has. for salt
beds.
Of more than a thousand business enterprises, 572 of these do business
in the Escalante Public Market. Various businesses have opted to do
business in the surrounding vicinity along the length of the main
thoroughfare. Among these business are 4 lending institutions, 9 pawnshops,
3 gasoline stations, 4 hardware stores, 2 glassware retailers, 3 big
grocery stores, and 8 drugstores. Several business are open on a 24-hour
basis.
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