Solar power for coffee farmers
MERALCO FOUNDATION’S project will boost production and increase the income potential of more than 100 cooperative members of the coffee-farming Talaandig Indigenous community in Bukidnon.
Daily TribuneMERALCO FOUNDATION’S project will boost production and increase the income potential of more than 100 cooperative members of the coffee-farming Talaandig Indigenous community in Bukidnon.
Meralco's social development arm, One Meralco Foundation, has pledged to energize using solar power the coffee processing facility of Milalittra Farmers Agriculture Cooperative in Talakag, Bukidnon.
The project, which falls under OMF's Agriculture and Livelihood Electrification, will boost production and increase the income potential of more than 100 cooperative members coming from the Talaandig Indigenous peoples who rely on this livelihood to support their families.
Members of the Talaandig community flew all the way from Bukidnon and joined the entire Meralco community during the ceremonial turnover of the solar PV system led by Meralco and OMF chairman Manuel V. Pangilinan.
Present during the ceremony were PLDT president and CEO Alfredo S. Panlilio, Meralco and OMF chairman Manny V. Pangilinan, MILFACO general manager Joannah P. Dumaquita, Talaandig community member May Joy Calixto, MILFACO chairperson Reynaldo D. Besto, Talaandig community member Belinda Besto, OMF president and Meralco chief CSR officer Jeffrey O. Tarayao, OMF trustee and Meralco chief operating officer Ronnie L. Aperocho and OMF trustee and Meralco chief revenue officer Ferdinand O. Geluz.