Seizing the Opportunity even during the Pandemic
During the pandemic Mrs. Babelyn Velasco, a member of women’s group in Shilan, La Trinidad, started with flower dealer and chicken dung business. She delivers vegetables in Metro Manila and buys chicken dung for fertilizer as backload. She is able to sell the chicken dung to 50% higher from its buying price.
She also saw the opportunity to sell flowering plants since it has become a trend during the pandemic. She sells her potted plants in Dagupan, Pangasinan. Her vegetable produce in Metro Manila and the chicken dung she backloads from Manila she sells it to farmers in La Trinidad. She rotates her time and efforts in vegetable dealing, chicken dung and potted pots business and generates income from these three.
She has been a client of JVOMFI for more than 10 years now. She used her first loan for “tunnels” in her farm. Farmers use the term tunnel referring to the plastic covering formed as tunnels to protect the plant from weeds, conserve water and serves as small greenhouse.
She advised her fellow entrepreneur to just keep on trying.