TRADE FAIR. Some 107 beneficiaries of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program will showcase their specialty products in the 6th Regional Trade Fair at the Marquee Mall in Angeles City, Pampanga on Nov. 16-19, 2023. To be offered for sale to the public are various food products and handicrafts from Aurora, Bataan, Bulacan, Nueva Ecija, Pampanga, Tarlac and Zambales. (Photo courtesy of the DTI Central Luzon)
CITY OF SAN FERNANDO, Pampanga – Agrarian reform beneficiaries in Central Luzon will showcase their wide array of food and non-food products in the four-day CARP Regional Trade Fair at Marquee Mall in Angeles City, this province on Nov. 16-19.
With the theme “Likha ng ARBs: Ipagmalaki at Tangkilikin,” the event that is now in its sixth year will be participated in by some 107 beneficiaries of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) from the region’s seven provinces -- Aurora, Bataan, Bulacan, Nueva Ecija, Pampanga, Tarlac and Zambales.
DTI-Bulacan Provincial Director and CARP Regional Manager Edna Dizon said the participants in the trade fair are agrarian reform beneficiaries and their families who were assisted by the DTI through its various programs and services such as livelihood skills training and provision of shared service facilities.
“Help us support our CARP farmer beneficiaries who bravely journeyed into becoming entrepreneurs. The DTI 3 brings to you its 6th Regional CARP Trade Fair to help ARBOs promote and sell their products, “Dizon said in a radio interview on Monday.
DTI 3 information officer Nerson Romero said the trade fair will offer not only agricultural products but also other goods being manufactured or produced by the CARP beneficiaries who venture into business aside from farming.
The products that will be put on sale include coco jam, ginger candies, bamboo handicrafts and "sabutan" (palm straw that is made into hats and mats) products from Aurora, and bagoong (shrimp paste) products, cashew nuts, garlic chips and gourmet tuyo, tinapa, and bangus from Bataan.
Also to become available are processed meat, fish and dairy products as well as bread products from Bulacan, and dairy products, herbal tea and coffee, camote chips, pots and furniture, handicrafts, and turmeric-based products from Nueva Ecija.
Meanwhile, from Pampanga are food and non-food items ranging from kitchen wares, bags, corporate souvenirs and delicacies such as yema, boat tarts, homemade nuts, chili pastes and fruit juices.
Tarlac CARP beneficiaries will offer sweet potato wine, essential oils, peanut butter, chicharon, soft brooms, corn husk products, mushroom and calamansi products.
Zambales farmers, on the other hand, will offer mango products, cassava chips, candied sesame, pickled products and bamboo-based handicrafts. (PNA)
