VLPCE Project in Bulan, blooms

Bulan, Sorsogon – two (2) Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries Organizations (ARBOs) is now enjoying the Village-Level Processing Center Enhancement (VLPCE) Project of DAR.

After series of trainings which began with pili candy making, packaging, labeling, marketing, and other related skills the Fabrica Women’s Association (FAWAS) in Bulan, Sorsogon is now producing Mom’s Best Pili Candies and Pastries. Recently, they were taught and informed about a set of sanitation guidelines for the physical and processing operations by Fe G. Bailon, the Resource Speaker in the training on Current Good Manufacturing Practices. The main goal of the training is to ensure the consumers that the manufacturing plant of the food they patronize has an ideal working environment with clean, safe and high quality of food products.

Also in Brgy.Nasuje, Bulan, Sorsogon after series of trainings on food processing, the dried fish products of Antipolo-Namo-Nasuje-Inararan-Calomagon (ANNIC) Multi-purpose Cooperative is now ready for market. The Food and Drug Administration had awarded the cooperative the license to operate. DAR expects that this occasion marks the beginning of economic growth of the five barangays. ###