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(PIA website by Breezy C. Jimenez)
It was just amazing to see the plentiful fruits and agriculture crops in this town, but it was also frustrating to think why I and even many others have not known this all along. Interestingly, I even learned now that there are several varieties of bananas organically grown and found only in the area; “amas”, a sugar-sweet, tiny banana (about 3 inches long) became easily my favorite. It was also here that I tasted a different kind of the exotic tropical durian fruit: I daresay, it is the best of its kind I have savored in all of Southeast Asia. Perhaps, the fertile soil and the cool climate stimulated the conditions for abundance, and variety of tasty fruits and crops in the area.
With these impressions, I then joined the guest speaker, former Provincial Governor Imelda Dimaporo accompanied by spouse Congressman Abdullah Dimaporo, in congratulating the local executives and the people for their achievement in maintaining peace and abundance in the town.
As we laud the community for their success, more effort should be made to help promote their agricultural produce so that many can share in the bounty of their land and for the economic benefit of the local folks as well.
