ILAGAN City—Local residents here celebrated the Bambanti Festival 2025 with Senator Christopher Lawrence Go as guest of honor.
Bambanti is an Ilocano word for scarecrow. The first Bambanti Festival was launched in 1997. It was created under the leadership of Gov. Benjamin Dy to celebrate the founding of Isabela.
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Scarecrows are improvised human-like objects that are put up in farms, fields, and paddies to discourage birds from picking crops like corn and rice.
Made from a wooden frame with a crosswise bar for arms and usually has a threadbare shirt on stuffed with grass or straw to shape its body, it is an effective, age-old practice of controlling birds who feed on the crops.
