date:Aug 06, 2013
tion is projected to employ close to 1,000 local residents.
Mr. Macalawan said the plantation had its first harvest of 1,500 boxes last June, from an initial area of 150 hectares. The harvested Cavendish was exported to Japan and Korea, he said.
Mindanao, location of commercial-scale banana plantations, ships out over $700 million worth of Cavendish to Japan and other markets annually.
ARMM Governor Mujiv S. Hataman expressed hope that more multinational companies would look at the regions in