KORONADAL CITY, South Cotabato, June 4 (PIA 12) -- The coastal town of Maitum in Sarangani province joined several municipalities across Soccsksargen Region or Region 12 pushing for the massive development of the rubber industry in the area.
Last Wednesday, May 30, the Maitum Rubber Growers Association (MARUGA) and the Sarangani Rubber Industry Cluster Development Team, in partnership with the provincial local government unit (LGU) and the municipal LGU of Maitum and the Department of Trade and Industry–Sarangani, conducted the 1st Sarangani Rubber Forum.
Among the forum's participants were least 165 rubber growers, traders, and government representatives from the seven municipalities of Sarangani.
"Rubber development will be my banner program," Maitum Mayor Elsie Lucille Perrett told the participants of the forum where she also inducted the first set of officers of the MARUGA.
Mayor Perrett was confident that Maitum would be one of the leaders in rubber industry in the near future.
"There is a tiger opportunity in the rubber industry that could make our economy leap to its highest plane," Gary Lee Perret, president of rubber growers' association, emphasized.
Resource persons during the rubber forum were Engr. Remus Villavicencio, municipal administrator of Makilala in North Cotabato, which has rubber as the center of its development plan; Jack Sandique, CEO of Platinum Rubber Development, Inc., one of the leading producers of natural rubber in the country; and Dr. Harem Roca, a professor of the state-run University of Southern Mindanao in Kabacan, North Cotabato, a leader in instruction, research, extension and production of several crops including rubber, and home to country's only quality testing laboratory for natural rubber products, the Philippine Rubber Testing Center
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