Three (3) young entrepreneurs from Benguet are this year’s financial grantees of the 2025 start-up provincial category of the Young Farmers Challenge (YFC), after presenting their business model ideas and their potential profit.
Under the YFC start-up program, the Department of Agriculture Cordillera (DA-CAR) will provide a P80,000 competitive financial grant for the youth engaged in new or start-up agri-fishery enterprises, open to all interested youth ages 18-30 with a sound business idea.
The grants shall serve as start-up capital for the proposed agri-fishery enterprise operated by either an individual or a joint venture of two or more youth.
Le-An Anuyan of FitTea Herba was the first to be granted P80,000 to upgrade the processing area for her herbal tea made from tea, lemon grass, and milk.
Glency Tino of the GLEN-C food products was the second grantee approved by the board of judges after presenting her preserves made from a fusion of strawberry, rhubarb, and strawberry, and beetroot.
Aside from using the grant for her processing area, the judges also recommended part of the grant to help her reposition her product in the market, through the technical support coming from the regional department’s Agriculture and Marketing Assistance Division (AMAD).
The third grantee is Elvin Poski of VIN Food products who presented his healthy vegetable bar made from carrots, squash, and camote as his business model that has been presented in various events of the Benguet State University (BSU), and has received a favorable response.
The grant for Poski’s business model will be used to acquire machinery for processing his healthy snack bar.
Common among the three grantees is the sourcing of the majority of their raw materials from the farmers of Benguet.
The three grantees were selected among other presenters after successfully introducing their business model canvas that showed a potential for marketability. By JTLlanes
good idea but why ages above 30 is excluded?