Katipunan

Market   Location  The municipality at present has only one market operating in town. The existing market situated at the heart of the Poblacion is the only concentration whenever consumers are getting short of prime commodities for family consumption.  The existing market has a total area of 1,853.9 sq. meters to accommodate the present numbers of [...]

Municipal Development Plan (MDP)   a. Planned Major Projects  The municipality, in order to complement the envision of the province to promote the growth area of the provincial industrial corridor has planned to improve the existing support facilities necessary to invite investors to put up capitals within the designated area strategically located in the DDKRM [...]

Agriculture Coconut is the principal crop produced in the municipality of Katipunan covering an approximate area of 6,787.50 hectares. This area has about ninety two percent (92%) fruit-bearing trees. The remaining are either newly planted or non-bearing. The total coconut production is estimated at 5,764 metric tons with an average of 849 kilograms of copra. [...]

Employment Distribution  Based on the records from the National census office, the potential labor force of Katipunan is approximately 56.81% of the total population. Only around 1,873 out of 37,448 people are gainfully employed while the rest whose age ranges from 15 years old and over were doing farming and fishing activities and some were [...]

Significance of the municipality to the region or province  The creation of the municipality of Katipunan has contributed lots of significant toward regional and provincial economic growth. The strategic location of the municipality has inspired many potential leaders in the regional and provincial level to introduce developments, which would gear the pressing needs of the [...]