Korean gov’t equips Davao farmers to improve durian production, marketing

The Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) is lending its expertise to the farmers in Davao City to improve durian production and marketing them.

This will be possible through the project “Sustainable Agricultural Environment Establishment through Durian Producer Organization in Mindanao, Philippines” launched recently.

Cho Buyoung, country director of Center for Asian Mission for the Poor (CAMP) International Center for Asian Mission for the Poor, said on Wednesday that they are choosing to assist the durian farmers from Calinan and Tugbok Districts in Davao City.

“This project will be funded by the Korean government. It has a program plan for the country mostly in agriculture. In the agriculture part, we are focusing on Mindanao because of the background of the conversation between the Korean government agency, which is the Korean International Cooperation Agency (KoiCA), and the Mindanao Development Authority (MinDA). When they discussed the develop- ment plan in Mindanao, we chose Davao City as a priority and we planned all the programs together with the farmers,”

Buyoung said during Wednesdays at Habi at Kape media forum.

The program, which is targeted to start this year, aims to establish a sustainable agricultural environment through durian processor practices in Davao City specifically in Calinan and Tugbok Districts.

The project has three components: supporting the farmers to produce quality durian with the help of the University of Southern

Mindanao (USM), which will assist farmers on the technical part; the University of the Philippines-Mindanao on the social part; and Unorka Mindanao for organizing the farmers.

“We organize the farmers and the cooperatives to improve the volume and have the power to the sellers and the last is redeveloping the market where to sell the durian. We are looking at the agricultural part, environmental, and social to make a value chain for durian production. It is our main program,” Boyoung said.

She also said that this is a three-year program, which has a project cost of $1.3 million, but they are looking at expanding this after three years.

“Because every three years we will have the evaluation and check the outlooks. So we are seeing a 10-year program for this,” she said.

Meanwhile, for the durians produce from the said project, Boyoung said they will be marketing them to the Luzon area.

“First the durians will be going to Luzon because we have a

OF DAVAO CITY

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2. Directing the Local Civil Registrar of Davao City to make the necessary annotations/changes in the Petitioner’s Certificate of Marriage;

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Furnish a copy of this Order of the Clerk of Court, Regional Trial Court, Davao City, for raffling of the publication.

SO ORDERED.

Davao City, Philippines, 27 March 2023.

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