Plantitos/plantitas gethigh sales on agri-fair

The plantitos/plantitas or gardeners who have been displaying the different kinds of plants and flowers in the
surrounding at the Old Tagbilaran City Airport had registered the highest sales so far that would reach close to half
million pesos during the three-day Sandugo Agri-Fair 2023 last July 17-19, 2023 since they started to participate the
fair and doing business of selling plants and flowers at the old airport, this city.
The plantitos/plantitas had the total sales of P489, 660 which was the biggest compared to last year agri-fair sales
that would only reach to almost P200, 000 and the average daily sales in all of them at P5, 000 during regular day of
selling.

The 25-strong plants exhibitors and their corresponding individual sales were: Estrelita Ototan who had gotten
the highest sales in the amount of P203, 000 and then followed by Bohol Grafted Fruit Trees (P61, 190), Evalyn
Cadayuna (P45, 000), Inday Dried Fist (P28, 800), Gardeners of Bohol Association (GBA) Maria Chita Patac (P13,
300), Marcelina Arceno (P13, 300), Nerners Garden (P11, 060), GBA/Carnacion Gabisay (P10, 400), Bebies Garden
(P10, 180), Gil and Litas Garden (P9, 800), Nenita Pong (P8, 800), Bohol Gardeners and Landscapers Association
(BGLA) Delia Rebuya (P8, 500), KaBoOM (Kapunungan sa Bohol sa mga Organikong Mag-uuma)- (P8, 300),
GBA/Raul Encabo (P8, 200), BGLA/Yonie (P8, 000), GBA/Dely Adlaon (P7, 100), Julita Bellezas -BGLA (P7,
050), BGLA (P6, 100), BGLA Bunao (P5, 200), GBA/Mary Jinky Flores (P5, 100), GBA Mary Ann Malaran (P 3,
800), GBA/Jueve Adlaon (P3, 450), Araceli Namocatcat (P2, 200), Edita Cabellon (P1, 500) and Raul Ciruela
(P400).

If the sales from plantitos/plantitas (P489, 660) will be added to the sales from the 32 Sandugo Agri-Fair
Exhibitors from the different municipalities in the province of Bohol (P748, 015.75), the total sales would be P1,
237, 675.75 the biggest sales compared to last year that would only reach to P780, 000 and since from the first
conduct of agri-fair way back in 1993 barely 30 years ago.

The gardener associations have been starting their operations at the Old Tagbilaran City Airport since 2018
during the time of Former Governor and now First District Congressman Edgar M. Chatto, and continued its
operations in the administrations of Former Gov. Art Yap and now of Governor Erico Aristotle C. Aumentado which
aims to help the plantitos/plantitas to augment their livelihood.

During the COVID-19 pandemic that wreaked havoc in the human lives and as the result the employment and
livelihood were badly affected as the business operations collapsed, but the business of plantitos/plantitas had gained
the big profit and became the main source of living.

At the start in the operations of the gardeners at the Old Tagbilaran City Airport, only the BGLA has displayed
and sold their different plants and flowers. After knowing by others that the business is gaining, some have gotten
interested and until now they have continued their operations and always be benefited when there are programs to be
conducted to the spacious area of the old airport which remains vacant after the operation was transferred to the
Bohol Panglao International Airport last 2018. By Atoy Cosap