Bohol used to be a big importer of a lot of vegetables such as tomatoes, cabbage, eggplant, squash and others mostly from Northern Mindanao. These days, some are still sourced from outside the province but that may not continue sooner than most people think. It won’t be surprising if the is and province will soon become an exporter of its own high quality vegetables, especially to the big market in Cebu.
The reason is that growing high-yielding hybrid vegetables is becoming increasingly popular in the province as more and more farmers are discovering that there is big money in growing such varieties.
The increasing popularity of high yielding vegetables can be gauged by the volume of sales of planting materials in the last few years. One seed firm, East-West Seed Company, for instance, has tremendously increased its sales in the last three years. For example, the company sold only P400,000 worth of seeds in 2006. In 2007, the value topped P1.2 million while this year the company is well on its way to sell at least P2 million worth of seeds. Of course, East-West Seed is just one of the suppliers of vegetable seeds in the province. At least three other seed companies are also selling their own varieties there.
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Posted on October 15th, 2008 under Vegetables. Tags: Bohol, Mindanao, Veggies. Comments: None
