The 'Queen' pineapple of Daet, CamNorte ... Mambulao will soon produce this variety for export.
By ALFREDO P HERNANDEZ
AN investor has taken interest in the pinyahan
production project in Baranggay San Pedro, Mambulao, CamNorte.
Joy del Rosario, municipal livelihood project
officer, said the unnamed investor intends to set up a dried-fruit processing
plant in Mambulao for Formosa pineapple variety.
The project is underway in Baranggay San Pedro,
covering about three hectares in the initial stage.
The crop would take about 14 months to grow and
harvest.
Meanwhile, a big fresh food market in Quezon City
has offered to buy the pineapple harvest, according to a source at the Mambulao
local government.
Two more sites – Luklukan Sur and San Jose -- will
be developed for Formosa production.
The three sites – San Pedro San Jose and Luklukan
Sur – would be needing 30,000 pineapple suckers under phase two of the project.
The San Pedro farm is being operated by four
farmer-beneficiaries.
Planting material is being provided by the Mambulao
LGU nursery.
Farm inputs will be supplied by the Mambulao
Multi-Purpose Cooperative (MMPC) under a credit scheme, in which fingerlings
and farm inputs will be repaid from the proceeds of the crop sale.
The pinyahan funding will come from the Grassroots
Participatory Budgeting Process (GPBP) program of the national government.
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