The Alcantara Group of Companies in Southern Mindanao has become well known for its Sarangani bangus the past several years. That is easily understandable. After all, it harvests about 18 tons of bangus every day and exports most of it in processed form to the United States and some other places. It’s the country’s biggest bangus exporter. At the same time, the Alcantara group, through its Finfish Hatcheries, produces some 800 million Sarangani bangus fingerlings a year, almost half the total requirements of the country.
Of course, many years back, the Alcantara group (also known simply as Alsons) was famous for its Sarangani cattle. The cattle project is still there but not as big an operation as it used to be. The company is also into mango (8,000 trees), 160 hectares of bananas (cardaba, Cavendish and lakatan) and over 30 hectares of pummelo.
