3 BMC from SurSur included the Top 7 YFC in Caraga

The Department of Agriculture (DA)- Caraga announced the Top Seven winners of the Business Model Canvass (BMC) Young Farmers Challenge (YFC) for the Regional Level Competition in Butuan City recently, in which three of them are from Surigao del Sur.

These are the three contestants from the province who are included in the Top 7:

● Top 2- Vidmae O. Jusay - Heaven’s Dew Farm Product - Lanuza, SDS;

● Top 5 - John Glaizelle M. Siman & Cindy Decierdo - Tsalach Aquaculture Park - Tago, SDS; and

● Top 7 - Charlene Mae Bico & Jaspher Angelo Telewik - Free Range Chicken Day Old Chick Production - Hinatuan, SDS. will represent the Caraga region at the National Level.

The winners received P150,000.00 as additional working capital that can be used to improve and acquire additional equipment, machinery, or materials for their chosen start-up.

The Young Farmers Challenge Fund (Kabataang Agribiz Competitive Grant Assistance Program) is a competitive financial grant assistance program for the youth who will engage in agrifishery-based enterprises.

The program is offered to all interested young people who have proposed business ventures with profitability potential. The grants shall serve as startup capital for the planned innovative agri-based microenterprise operated by an individual youth or as a joint venture between two or more individual youth. (photo credit to: DA-Caraga)