The Davao City Food Terminal (DFTC), the city's official wholesale trading center for fruits and vegetables, is now open to the public. Andres Alemania, the Department of Agriculture in Davao Region technical director for Research and Regulations, said the facility in Barangay Daliao Toril officially opened on October 18.
The PHP74.8 million (€1.27 mln) project, funded by DA-11 in collaboration with the city government, operates round-the-clock for local farmers, producers, traders, and wholesalers. It also caters to wholesale trading for farm fruit and vegetable products from across the region.
Alemania: “[It is] a trading center that will directly link farmers to its buyers and where consumers could have access to fresh and affordable fruits and vegetables is now operational.” He added that the DFTC, with its five-hectare land area, will be enough to accommodate the bulk of agricultural produce in the city and those from neighboring regions.
“It also has a spacious cold storage facility with eight refrigerated containers,” Alemania said, even as he assured the local government's continued commitment to serving the agri-fishery communities through marketing support, processing, logistics, and technology transfer.
Source: pna.gov.ph
