Value-adding: This Quezon farmer likes to make the most of her harvests

Value-adding: This Quezon farmer likes to make the most of her harvests

Earlier this year, I was in Guinyanggan, Quezon, on the invitation of Dr. Julian Gonsalves, Senior Asia Program Advisor at the International Institute for Rural Reconstruction (IIRR), an international organization focusing on rural development, where I was introduced to some of their farmer cooperators in various agricultural programs. The cooperator who impressed me the most was Maria Teresa Herrera, a tilapia grower under IIRR’s AQUADAPT proje…