M'lang Produces The Tastiest, Sweetest Pomelo

ALL OVER THE COUNTRY

By Mortz C. Ortigoza

 M’LANG, Cotabato – The pomelo in this agricultural land locked town is the tastiest among all the big citrus fruits in the country, an executive of the huge Sheba Pomelo Farm said.
Eleonor “Lotlot” Alba- Antonio said that in her countless of years as supervisor of planters of huge hectares of pomelo in the provinces of Cotabato, South Cotabato, Sarangani, and Davao, the sweet pinkish flesh fruit planted here is the tastiest.

“Aside from the combination of proper care, right fertilizers and pesticides the factor of its being the sweetest is the soil of this town,” Antonio told this writer in her 24 hectares of  the scientifically known citrus grandis' plantation in Barangay Buayan here.

POMELOS. Businesswoman Eleonor “Lotlot” Alba- Antonio and a worker pose for posterity with a mountain of the big citrus fruits behind them at her 24 hectares' farm in Brgy. Buayan, M'lang, Cotabato Province.

She disclosed that Sheba Pomelo Farm has roughly three hundred of hectares of pomelo plantations all over Central Mindanao and Davao Provinces that sustain the unquenchable appetites for the big citrus fruits of the millions of consumers in the Visaya and Luzon Regions.

She cited that pomelo varies in classes.

“This one is Class A while this same size is Class B. When you weight them by your hand however the Class B is lighter,” she explained in Ilonggo the distinctions of the five pomelo fruits displayed at the table while countless of sacks of pomelos for delivery in Manila piled nearby.