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Negrense Kadiwa rakes in P3.2-M in sales during quarantine

By Erwin Nicavera

June 4, 2020, 5:46 pm

<p><strong>KADIWA STORE.</strong> Some of the farm produce sold at the Negrense: Kadiwa ni Ani at Kita store located at the Negros Food Terminal Market along North Capitol Road in Bacolod City. It generated PHP3.2 million in gross sales from April 1 until May 30. <em>(PNA Bacolod file photo)</em></p>

KADIWA STORE. Some of the farm produce sold at the Negrense: Kadiwa ni Ani at Kita store located at the Negros Food Terminal Market along North Capitol Road in Bacolod City. It generated PHP3.2 million in gross sales from April 1 until May 30. (PNA Bacolod file photo)

BACOLOD CITY – The Negrense: Kadiwa ni Ani at Kita store run by the Negros Occidental provincial government has earned about PHP3.2 million in gross sales from the time it opened on April 1 until May 30.

The province’s total earnings were included in the figures released by the Department of Agriculture (DA) on Wednesday.

Remelyn Recoter, regional executive director of DA-Western Visayas, said that when cities and provinces in the region were placed under enhanced community quarantine (ECQ), they responded to the marketing concerns of the farmers.

“We linked them directly to the consumers through the Kadiwa markets,” she added.

In Negros Occidental, the DA has collaborated with the provincial government for the opening of the Negrense: Kadiwa ni Ani at Kita, which targeted the delivery of agri-products right to the doorstep of Negrense consumers during the ECQ, which started on March 30 and lasted until the end of April in the province.

The physical store is at the Negros Food Terminal Market on North Capitol Road here.

The Negrense: Kadiwa receives orders through walk-in, pick-up, and delivery.

Online orders can be made through applications of partner-delivery/rider companies Grab, Tinderoo, Juan Ride, Maid in Bacolod, Maxim, and Tapao.ph.

The list and prices of rice, vegetables, and other farm produce can be viewed on the Negrense-Kadiwa official Facebook page.

On its first week, from April 1 to 8, except April 5, the store generated PHP612,199 from selling lowland and upland vegetables, spices, eggs, meat, and poultry products to both walk-in and home delivery clients. The highest sales of PHP131,835 was recorded on April 7.

Recoter said that assorted lowland and highland vegetables, fruits, root crops, processed products, spices, rice, dairy, and fishery products are being sold in the Kadiwa markets region-wide.

“We would like also to commend the local government units who purchased the agricultural products of their farmers as inclusion in the relief packs distributed to poor communities during the ECQ,” the DA official added.  (PNA)


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