‘Dahil sa Badiang’ Visit to Kulaman Valley Showed Vast Agri Areas

Sumilil, Bagumbayan, Sultan Kudarat – What started as just a fun game of finding the biggest and tallest Badiang in Mindanao may yet start the development of a vast agricultural area called Kulaman Valley.

Yesterday, I travelled for about 3 hours to deliver the prize I promised to the winners of the Biggest Badiang and Biggest Carabao Challenge, a fun game which I launched to mark the Farmers Month of May.

I intended to go to Bagumbayan first to deliver 12 heads of Manok Pinoy breeders to the owner of the Biggest Badiang and proceed to Maitum, Saranggani afterwards.

I failed to proceed to Maitum because I underestimated the travel time and the distance.

But I made a pleasant discovery when I went to Barangay Sumilil to give farmer Alvin Sibug his Manok Pinoy breeders.

I saw for myself the vast underutilized areas in what is known as the Kulaman Valley, an undulating high elevation area in between the towns of Bagumbayan and Sen. Ninoy Aquino, both in Sultan Kudarat.

The town of SNA is known as the coffee plantation area of Mindanao but a lot could still be done in the vast valley where people plant corn and where poverty is prevalent.

I promised the village officials of Sumilil that I would come back and I would be bringing with me planners of the Mindanao Development Authority (MinDA) so that with the help of the stakeholders in the area, we could chart a good plan to develop the area.

This is all going to happen because of “Badiang.”

#LetsWalkAnExtraKilometer!

#DiscoveringMindanaoPotentials!

(Photos were taken by the media team of the Mindanao Development Authority.)