Mindanaotoday.com | Mindanao seen as food and raw materials production hub
MINDANAO is seen as the production hub for food, food by products, and raw materials for the whole country with potentials for export.
This is the affirmation in the recently concluded Mindanao Business Conference held in Tandag City last September 1-2, 2022.
After two years of hiatus, the Mindanao Business Conference is back. Hosted by the Tandag Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Inc. (TCCII) together with the City Government of Tandag, the bizcon brought an effort to hold the Mindanao business gathering to a face-to-face event yet since the pandemic.
As this conference gathered over a thousand business leaders, industry movers, enterprising game changers, policy experts, and various stakeholders, it highlighted “Unity in diversity,” which signifies the collaboration between the public and private sectors especially with the Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (MSME’s) for the harnessing of Mindanao’s potential in key areas of development, such as, agriculture, tourism, international and local relations, export trade, mining, infrastructure, education, government processes and policies.
The event gave an opportunity for the stakeholders to raise issues/concerns that were addressed accordingly.
It has also been a platform to draft a resolution to be forwarded to the President of the Republic of the Philippines, His Excellency Ferdinand Marcos Jr., with the aim to be heard by the National Government for the building, rebuilding, and sustaining Mindanao’s economy and its peace and order.
MinDA, and all the other stakeholders of the 31st Mindanao Business Conference, are now gearing up towards a Bigger, Better, and Bolder One Mindanao. Completely eradicating the stigma about an unsafe island we are on.
“As the world recovers from the pandemic, and as people return to normal, Mindanao can position itself as production center for raw materials, food and by-products, as well as mineral resources,” said MinDA Secretary Maria Belen Acosta in her message during the conference.
Meanwhile, MinDA, represented by the Area Management Office of South Central Mindanao, participated in the Globe Telecommunications Roadshow with BARMM Officials at Grand Summit Hotel, General Santos City.
The activity is part of the cooperation between MinDA and Globe on how to go about economic recovery program in Mindanao thru digitization.
Focus of the program is to accelerate telecommunication infra-investments for unserved and underserved areas in Mindanao, of which mostly located in BARMM. (MinDA)
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