One the island of LUZON in the Philippines, about 190 miles north of Manila, is a rulal barrio covered with paths leading from houses to fields, to rice paddies, to nearby barrios, and between sitios (neighborhood clusters of houses). Most of the houses are built on the tops of ridges, saving the valuable valleys for farming.
Rice if the main food crop. It is raised during the rainy season, from June to autumn. Tobacco is the main cash crop, grown during the dry season. (A cash crop is one that people grow to sell rather than for their own use.) Barrio residents also grow sugar cane, corn, bananas and a variety of vegetables. They raise pigs, chickens and carabao (water buffalo).
Tarong : Tah-wrong
Ilocos : ee-Low-cohs
The written data on Tarong were provided by Dr. Villiam Nydegger, professor of Anthropology, Pennsylvania
"How can a man live if he does not have neighbors to help him?" is a saying which is often heard in Tarong. Dr. Nydegger shows some of the ways in Which Tarong neighbors help one another in their everyday lives. The barrio people have several kinds of cooperative work groups. The most common is the tagnawa, a loosely organized group of men who cooperate for one day. The men do something that is too difficult for one man to do alone, like building a house or leveling land.
The kompang is a group of about six to eight men who regularly work neighboring farmland. They are usually kin, neighbors, or good friends. This group does heavy field work, such as repairing dikes after a flood. They go from one man's field to another's spending a day at each until the work is done.
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