Therma Marine provides livelihood skills training to upland Maco farmers

May 12, 2016

Through the joint livelihood skills training program of AboitizPower subsidiary Therma Marine, Aboitiz Foundation and the provincial Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD); 100 Mapaang corn farmers in Maco, Compostela Valley no longer have to rely on the P28,000 they earn from each harvest, toiling on 2,500 square meters of land.The farmers learned to grow organic onions, which allow them to earn as much as P160,000 for 2,000 kilos of high-value onions they harvested from the 2,500 square meters of land they set aside for the endeavor.Jinglyn Ragase, one of the first 100 farmer-beneficiaries, thanked Therma Marine for the opportunity to grow organic onions, which sell at an average of P80 per kilo. She said that her family’s income from growing corn, which is harvested once every 4 months during favorable weather, is a far cry from onion growing.

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