Agriculture

SSF For Organic Compost Production

Local Government Unit of Alfonso, Cavite The Municipality of Alfonso is located in the high value and productive agricultural zone. It is among the upland towns that form the agricultural base and food basket of the province of Cavite.

The Municipality of Alfonso is an upland town situated at the southwestern peripheral boundary of the province of Cavite and lies on the coordinates of 14°05′ latitude and 120°50’longitude. The boundary limits are the municipality of Indang to the north, Batangas province to the south, Gen. Aguinaldo and Magallanes to the west and Mendez-Nuñez to the east.

The cool climate of the municipality, the favorable peace and order condition, its accessibility, and the presence of the facilities and basic amenities present a wholesome environment that make Alfonso attractive to visitors and inventors. 

Although it is considered as an agricultural community, its proximity to Tagaytay City, a well-known tourist destination area in the country, highly influenced the development trend in the area. For the past years, tourism related activities were taking place in the locality particularly those involved in cut flower production, which is considered not only as high earner agricultural crop but as a tourist attraction as well. Tourism destination areas like golf courses, condominium cum hotel, resorts, restaurants, and other tourism facilities, were constructed in the municipality thereby paving the way to the development of Alfonso as an agro-tourism area.

SSF For Dairy Industry

General Trias Dairy Raisers Multi-Purpose Corporative expanded their product lines from fresh milk, white cheese, yougurt, pastillas, etc. with the addition of ice cream that comes in various flavors. GTDRMC aims to further increase the income of farmers and dairy raisers and promote the nutrition in the community.

Flavored ice cream made from Carabao’s milk is one of the best sellers produced by Gen.Trias Dairy Raisers MPC. More popularly known as GenTri’s Best, in the province. Acquisition of ice cream machines through SSF Project eliminates spoilage of   and in turn produces 100 liters of ice cream per month which is marketed by GTDRMP was formed and registered in August 10, 2005 mainly to promote dairy enterprise to improve the quality of lives of the Carabao raisers.  From 44 members, the Coop has increased its membership to 176 in 2012. This multi-million project is in collaboration with the Local Government of General Trias, the Korea International Cooperating Agency and the Philippine Carabao Center of the Department of Agriculture. DTI’s SSF gave the cooperative a further boost with the acquisition of machines that eliminates spoilage of raw materials.

SSF For Agri-Based Food Production

In year 1993, through the R.A. No. 6657, or the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Law, the municipality of Naic, Cavite was classified as one of the Agrarian Reform Communities (ARCs) in the province of Cavite. It was in year 1994 when the Palangue Agrarian Reform
Beneficiaries Association (PARBA) located at Brgy. Palangue 2 and 3, Naic Cavite was organized initially with seventeen members. Back in July 5, 1995, the Palangue Agrarian Reform Cooperative (PARC) was registered in Cooperative Development Authority (CDA) with 34 members whom were Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries (ARBs) and initial capital of 21,100.00 pesos.

Since then, the members of the cooperative were able to utilize the land awarded to them by producing rice and vegetables like tomatoes, cucumbers, strings beans, bitter gourds, corn, eggplants and other crops. The municipalities of Naic, Silang, Tanza, Indang and Trece Martires City benefitted from farmers of this cooperative as source of vegetables for their public market. In year 2005, PARC closed a contract with Waltermart Supermarket as supplier of vegetables in consignment but due to the huge volume requirement, they were not able to sustain the market.

The Shared Service Facilities (SSF) Project of the Department of Trade and Industry aims to improve the quality and productivity of microenterprises and SMEs by addressing the gaps and bottlenecks in the value chain of priority industry clusters through the provision of processing machines/equipment for the common use of the Microenterprises and SMEs within the said industry clusters all over the country.