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DAVAO City – A micro small and medium entrepreneur (MSME) has tapped two farmer cooperatives in the interior barangay of Davao Oriental for banana chips processing.

Jose Endona of Mati City has been into the banana chips business for two years now and he said the market of this product locally is huge, citing Davao City as a captive market.

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He named the two cooperatives as the San Ignacio Farmers Cooperative and the San Vicente ARB Cooperative.

“I had already contracted with them their production until December with the San Ignacio Coop at 3,500 packs weekly and the San Vicente Coop with 1,000 packs per week,” he said. Both production areas need a total of 45,000 kilograms of fresh bananas weekly and the farmers source the bananas in the mountainous area of Manay, Davao Oriental.

According to Endona, he chose these cooperatives because they are within the source of saba and cardava bananas. He said bananas grown in high elevation are sweeter and of good quality.

“It is the women who handle the production of banana chips and we have standards set such as the use of only mature bananas that come from the mountainous area in their barangay, must be crispy and with less or no oil aside from following healthy and sanitary standards,” he said.

Endona said there is now a trend among urban consumers of eating healthier stuff like (banana chips) rather than the junk food.

“We have clients looking for unsweetened banana chips as ingredients in serving dishes such as gourmet food in specialty stores and selected restaurants,” he said. pna

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