Through his laborers’ help, they continuously produced wet beans from his 8-hectare cacao farm. They have peaked at least three times with a harvest of 1,200 kilos as the highest, followed by 850 kilos and 700 kilos of cacao wet beans and sold it to MAMPCO at P40 per kilo.

 

The cacao wet beans are then processed into tablea tablets and even into chocolate bars by MAMPCO.

 

Arman’s income from cacao farming helps him provide the needs of his family and in sending his children to school. His laborers also earned enough to feed their own families.

 

Arman said that this project is a great help not only for me but also to other people especially my farm laborers. I really made sure to have a continuous production of cacao to sustain their needs despite the pandemic.

 

“I am happy that I have become a part of how they survived the difficulties at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic when everyone else were having a hard time,” he shared.

He also proudly said that he is from the progressive town of Maragusan and a member of MAMPCO that is now known to produce pure tablea tablets and chocolate bars distributed nationwide.

 

The P2.5 million tablea processing and marketing enterprise project was granted to MAMPCO by the Department of Agriculture through the Philippine Rural Development Project. (JANELLE T. FLORES/InfoACE RPCO11 | LEONARD ASUQUE/InfoACE-PSO Mindnao)