Chinese investors keen on Pangasinan mangoes
LINGAYEN–Business leaders and technicians from Sichuan province in China will visit Pangasinan soon to look into investment opportunities in agriculture, particularly the mango industry.
Governor Amado Espino Jr., who headed an 18-man delegation to China from August 19 to 26 to sign a memorandum of understanding between Pangasinan and Sichuan with his counterpart in that province, said the Chinese enjoyed the dried mangoes they brought as gifts and expressed interest in the product.
Sichuan, one of the most progressive and biggest provinces in China comprising of 87 million people, which is almost the same as the entire population of the Philippines.
Espino hailed the planned visit of the businessmen and technicians from Sichuan, which relies heavily in agriculture and technology.
The governor said the Chinese might possibly invest in the development of mango plantations and the harvest will be exported to China, or the development of mango processing plants for the manufacture of dried mangoes and even puree, also for export.
Espino said their Chinese hosts invited them to return on October to witness their trade fair that will be held in Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan.
The MOU that Espino signed with Wei Hong, executive governor of Sichuan, provides that both provinces will carry out exchanges and cooperation in the fields of industry, agriculture, trade, science and technology. — LM
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