date:Jul 08, 2013
e dont have enough farms, farm to market access is difficult or non-existent. Our partner suppliers farmers have to walk long distances to harvest the fruits. The fruits are then collected and brought by trucks to the city. From the city, they transport the fruits by boat to our plants here in Cebu.
By the time the material reaches our plants transport costs alone have gone up so high leaving our product less competitive, he said.
This means that Philippine-made dried mangos cannot compete w