MUSHROOM MAN

MUSHROOM MAN—Venancio Abalos, general manager of the Balikatan Farmers Multi-Purpose Cooperative, shows some of his medicinal ganoderma mushroom, which fetch a price of up to P5,000 per kilo in the market. Abalos said the mushroom industry in the country will boom once the proposed processing plant is established. (Punchphoto by Cesar S. Ramirez)