Success Stories

Fifty-year old Jessie Gunda Globio is the pride of Poblacion 2 in Balangkayan, Eastern Samar who takes farming as his bread and butter.  He went into farming because he saw the great potential of the land entrusted to him by his parents and in-laws.  These agricultural lands became his "classrooms" where he often  stays from sunrise to dusk.  They were witnesses of his passion to learn by doing and in striving for more. 

Many dream but do not dare and never know because they never try.  Not Mr. Ursulo “Ursing” de la Peña because he dreams and dares.

“If someone had told me that I would be exporting, I would have laughed at such an improbable idea”, quips Edna.

Educated on it or not, Ret. Col. Esteban Conchas for sure has a green thumb that makes him stand out not just in the military but in farming!

Who would have thought of a man inspecting battalions, marching in the infantry, aiming for enemies, carrying arms would now be lining up fruit trees, trudging the farms, targeting pest, and possessing farming tools and fertilizers. Indeed Manong Steve had turned the spears into plow shears.