Success Stories

by Rudy Fernandez
(as published in the Philippine Star, October 4, 2009)

Rosalie Ellasus has dabbled in many different fields. From working in medical technology, to becoming an OFW, then a farmer, and finally a leader and speaker giving testimonials on her success, Ellasus has truly crossed many boundaries and hurdled many obstacles to become what she is today.

by Eva Visperas
(as published in the Philippine Star, Sept. 6, 2009)

If it's hard to get your kids to eat malunggay (moringa), then give them ice cream blended with the nutritious leaves.

The malunggay ice cream prepared by agriculturist Victoria Padilla in her backyard in Barangay Nalsian, Manaoag town is making waves and stocks have already reached outlets in Baguio City.

by Eva Visperas
(as published in the Philippine Star, Sept. 6, 2009)

Fe Majia-Vidal started her now popular CBN Bonuan Boneless Bangus products 14 years ago with only 20 pieces of bangus (milkfish) and P500 capital. CBN are the initials of the name of her three children.

by Adora Rodriguez
(as posted in philstar.com, July 12, 2009)

MANILA, Philippines – Lito Arenas finished a nursing course several decades ago, but he decided instead to pursue a path that he had grown familiar with in Manaoag, Pangasinan: raising mangoes.

He did not regret his decision one bit. He is now one of the biggest suppliers of mangoes in the Philippines.

by Jovito M. Laca
Media Production Specialist II

Six years in the company of farmers has already given him surburnt skin, thick roughened palms, wrinkled forehead and calloused feet.

But 38-year old Clarito "Clinton" Pascua, an agricultural technologist at the Municipal Agriculture Office in San Jacinto, a fourth class town in Central Pangasinan, has been accustomed to the mud, coarse earth and sweltering sun.

by Jovito M. Laca
Media Production Specialist II

"Why did he quit his good paying job as restaurant manager in London and opted to labor as a farmer here?" comes as a standard, handy query whenever one comes to know Punong Barangay Manuel Cabrera of Malabago, Mangaldan, Pangasinan.

To this, he has no standard reply but he makes it clearly known however that he finds pleasure in his new job as a farmer and as a farmer-leader and leader of his community.

by Melinda F. Mangabat, PhD
Training Specialist III

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