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Marilyn Buano: The Wonderwoman of SAMPCO
The story of this young woman in the management world displays how knowledge can lead to the creation of opportunities and possibilities that has earned her success in a profession she always loved – farming.Finding the road out of poverty, a once little girl in a small village in Trento,…
The Real-life Wonder Woman
Underrated, unsafe, rebel infested, and isolated.These are some of the words that were used to describe a once far-flung Barangay in Rosario, Agusan del Sur called Marfil, where development could hardly stretch and people co-exist with plants, trees, and animals, striving to make a living.But…
Living the Dream: The Vicenta Becina Story
“I had always dreamed to till a land that I can call my own”, she said exactly. “You cannot help but dream, life was very hard those days”, she added.Those days referred to year 1980 when Nang Besing, as fondly called, started cultivating a portion of a government-owned…
GARBECO : The Road to a Successful Brew
It started as a 30-member association back in 2008 when DAR implemented the Agrarian Reform Community program in the municipality of Sta. Monica in Siargao Islands, Province of Surigao del Norte. Agrarian reform beneficiaries were being organized into associations one of which was the…
Brewing a Better Coffee Enterprise for Surigao Sur Farmers: The Project ConVERGE – ACDI/VOCA PhilCAFE Partnership
In Surigao del Sur many farmers have ventured in the coffee enterprise over the last few years. Despite their efforts, working to get a big shot in a competitive and promising industry is not an easy road to take, and is common to many other coffee farming communities in the country.With the…
A hope for Arabella
Deep in the remote area of La Paz, Agusan del Sur, in a dusty barangay Sagunto where life is hard and food is scarce, a four-year-old girl’s eyes were glazed with discomfort. She sat on her mother’s lap and wearily gnawed on a hard root crop and stared vacantly at one corner where…
Rubbing a Fortune
“Life was very difficult back then,” Mr. Romeo Atenta, the coop manager started.Then was referred to a time when all of them were just workers of the rubber company. “We hardly can send our children to school,” he continued.Traversing the area, you will see towering…
Big Money from Small Lands
He did not even imagined reaching this level of being a farmer, says the 2014 Gawad Pitak awardee. It’s all about hard work, he added.43 year-old Ruben Ragas of Sanghan, Cabadbaran, Agusan del Norte received two hectares of agricultural land from the government’s land distribution…
Back to Banana
Once, there was a farmer at a forum. He appeared and noted to be cheerful and optimistic, but this time was different. He seemed visibly upset.The facilitator asks how he was. Lost and disappointed came the response.Like any other farmer, he seemed to be discouraged with the scenario on banana…
Treasures in Veggies
It was 4 am, blinding rain against the sky where the great copper ball of the sun will come out the usual, heat clawing at the earth anytime, but not this day. The rain is threatening the harvest day for the 59 year-old Armando Canoñero.The man slipped out from his room and sip his cup of…
Department of Agrarian Reform
The Department of Agrarian Reform is the lead government agency that holds and implements comprehensive and genuine agrarian reform which actualizes equitable land distribution, ownership, agricultural productivity, and tenurial security for, of and with the tillers of the land towards the improvement of their quality of life.
