My hometown, Ibaan a second class municipality is a small municipality in the province of Batangas. It has 26 barangays in which within a land area of 68.99 square kilometers or 26.64 square miles which constitutes 2.21% of Batangas’s total area. Its population was determined by the 2015 Census was 52,970. Only 1.97% of the overall population of Batangas Province.
According to the Bureau of Local Government Finance, the annual regular revenue of Ibaan for the fiscal year of 2016 was P122,147,502.81 which is 9.90% higher than of 2015 but the increase is relatively lower compared to the increase in 2015 from 2014 (11.61%). Ibaan’s small land area was cultivated mainly by sugarcane crops among any other agricultural crops. Our municipality was known for its indigenous occupation, “lako” or “paglalako” in which can be chronically dated in the early history in which town people of Ibaan called “Ibaenos” produce several kinds of crops to bring it to different places in the province of Batangas.
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Ibaan Batangas.(n.d.) retrieved from https://www.philatlas.com/luzon/r04a/batangas /ibaan.html retrieved on Nov. 13, 2019
