By BEN BALCE
Staff member .
Food processors Association of Northern Mindanao (FOPANORMIN) once again to showcase this year the pride of Misamis Oriental through a display of flavors and crafts in the annual Tinagboan on August 2 -5, at the Limketkai Atrium, Cagayan de Oro City.
Tinagboan Food Festival 2019 dubbed as Fiesta Carnival, Food for life, “Where food, culture and people converge together to celebrate life in vibrant colors.”
“We are aiming to make this year’s Tinagboan bigger and grander by creating a bigger public awareness of this upcoming event,” said FOPANORMIN advisory board Viel P. Jose.
Jose said that the exhibit will also to promote the emerging products of the province, as well as the existing ones.
“Tinagboan will also showcase the flavors and creativity of our people, to make it known to the public,” he said, adding that create a venue to open a market for these products specially the Micro Small & Medium Enterprises (MSMEs), both old and new.
Department of Trade and Industry representative Dete Acosta said it has always been the DTI’s priority to help future and budding entrepreneurs in visualizing and expanding their business, respectively like the FOPANORMIN.
SMEs are defined as any enterprise with 10 to 199 employees and/or assets valued from P3 million to P100 million.
Acosta said that a trader can get an MSME Certificate first.
“There are a set of criteria that an entity has to meet in order to be classified as a medium, small or micro enterprise for obtaining the MSME registration,” she said.
Project KAPATID according to Acosta is an initiative of the DTI and the Philippine Center for Entrepreneurship (PCE) to help the country’s micro and small enterprises (MSEs) through three key components:
The Mentor ME (micro entrepreneurs) program, a coaching and mentoring approach where large corporations teach MSEs on different aspects of business operations; the Adopt-an-SSF (Shared Service Facility) program, which aims to help micro entrepreneurs by providing them access to SSFs in their community; and the Inclusive Business (IB) model where MSEs are linked into large companies’ value chains
Meanwhile, FOPANORMIN president Nenita Tan said to fully maximize the exposure of their local MSME, especially the new emerging ones through their “Piyesta sa Nayon.”
“Let’s dine, shop and celebrate. This is truly a Filipino culture and a timely event as we welcome the upcoming Kagay-an Festival 2019,” Tan said.
Exhibitors are as the follow: 4CS, Coycoys Lechon, AM Natures, BAPPCO, Best Friend Goodies, Bite Me Up, Bukidnon Milk, Darling Foods, Dulceta, Eagles Nest, Firestar, GAMA Foods, Happy Pulp, Highland Fresh, Hinam-is, J&P, Jojis D, Jokos, Mang Kiko, Mercedes Bakery, MJ Foods, Muron, Nutcracker, Padlas, Pilian, SLERS, SMEI, TGO Pine, VjANDEP, Fuentisfina Foods, Meraki, NM Foods, Palaña, VitaCee, Ato Kini, Evorganix, SIVAKO, Monday, YSU Marketing, Crunchy Time and Dream Pattiserie.
