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• High-Value Tawi-Tawi Grouper

  Paterson Jalusman (in long sleeves), caretaker of the Upper Pahut Multi-purpose Cooperative in Barangay Pahut, Bongao, Tawi-Tawi, evaluates  the co-op’s stock of grouper juveniles before returning them to floating fish cages. Upper Pahut MPC is one o...

• Treating Veggies with TLC Leads to Higher Profits, Misamis Farmers Find

  BALINGASAG, MISAMIS ORIENTAL—Born to a family of farmers in this tightly-knit rural community, Ronaldo Dagatan started to help out with the planting while still a young boy. “Farming has been my life,” he says, as he adjusts the posts of a bamboo tr...

• Bitter Gourd, Sweet Profits

  Vegetable farmer Ronaldo Dagatan (right) shows  Leo Eduria, executive director of the Northern Mindanao Vegetable Producer Association (NorminVeggies), the ampalaya (bitter gourd) growing on his farm in Balingasag, Misamis Oriental. After attending train...

• Taxes for the Common Good

  With a dose of humor, municipal treasurer Corazon Arbitrario (left) explains the local tax collection strategy to Subanen indigenous people in an upland barangay in Dumingag, Zamboanga del Sur. The success of the local tax collection campaign is no laug...

• Pikit Barangay Bridge

  In Barangay Pamalian and adjacent barangays in Pikit, North Cotabato, residents used to be able to cross Paidu Pulangi Creek (left) only by wading or riding in boats. Now that a new barangay bridge (right), has been built by USAID's Growth with Equity in ...

• Agriculture Boost

  Leo Eduria (3rd from left), executive director of the Northern Mindanao Vegetable Producers Association (NorminVeggies), and Arcadio Rodulfa (far right), agriculture specialist of USAID’s Growth with Equity in Mindanao (GEM) Program, turn over food-grad...