ZAMBOANGA CITY – Fruit and vegetable growers in Western Mindanao are organizing themselves as producer associations in order to provide high quality goods for both domestic and foreign markets.

Mindanao fruits particularly durian are in great demand, with orders reaching P2.56 million in less than two months. Agriculture Assistant Secretary Salvador Salacup said the Mindanao Fruits ...

Filipino fruit producers in Mindanao would now be able to ship their harvest directly to Luzon and the Visayas daily amid the Covid-19 pandemic following the signing of a marketing agreement ...

Fred Dumasis, president of the Sarangani Federation of Fruit Industry Association (Safia), said that since 2008, Mindanao has not experienced favorable weather for mango production. Mango trees ...

Fruit exporter AgriNurture Inc. (ANI) and its two partners will plant bananas, pineapples, rice, and/or corn on 20,000 hectares of land in Mindanao. Harvests from the project will be sold for export, ...

THE MINDANAO Development Authority (MinDA) is meeting with stakeholders this week to plan for a regular and sustainable shipment of fruits that grow only or at best quality in Mindanao to other parts ...

Dole-Stanfilco, Sumitomo Fruits, Unifrutti, and Tadeco, part of the diversified Anflocor group, are large banana exporters. Seven out of 12 investors have Mindanao progenies. They are Alsons ...

A press release the other day from the US -funded Growth with Equity in Mindanao (GEM) quoted Zavier Abella, Agri-Nurture Inc.’s purchasing officer for fruits, as citing the need for more fruit ...